Now jailbound ex-Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby faces losing luxury Florida vacation condo she bought fraudulently as feds seek to seize it, two days after she requested presidential pardon

Former Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby could be about to lose her Florida vacation condo - the same property she was found to have bought fraudulently, days after revealing she plans to ask for a presidential pardon to avoid a lengthy jail term.

Mosby, 44, bought the property in February 2021 for $476,000 but the feds are now looking to seize it and sell the place. 

If there are profits from the sale, Mosby would get back her original $47,600 down payment, prosecutors have stated.

During her trial on perjury and mortgage fraud charges, the court heard how Mosby lied on her mortgage application for a $428,000 loan for the Longboat Key, Florida home, including the false claim she received a $5,000 gift from her husband. 

Prosecutors said she claimed to receive the $5,000 in order to secure a lower interest rate, while in actual fact she sent the funds to her husband first for him to then send it back to her in what was seen as a financial sleight of hand. 

Federal prosecutors have now filed notice that they will look to seize the property, likely on the same day as Mosby's May 23 sentencing.

The condominium sits along Florida's Gulf Coast and is nicknamed 'The Tree House'.

The home is one of two Florida vacation properties Mosby purchased during the coronavirus pandemic using money withdrawn from her city retirement account.

Mosby took about $90,000 in order to put down payments on the two homes. 

But prosecutors said Mosby lied in order to make early withdrawals about claiming she had suffered a pandemic-related financial setback under the CARES Act, federal legislation that offered emergency economic relief during the health crisis. 

Prosecutors said Mosby was earning a gross annual salary of nearly $250,000 at the time as state's attorney for Baltimore.

At her trial, prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky explained how she repeatedly lied on the mortgage applications, telling the court: 'She was the top prosecutor in the city of Baltimore and oversaw hundreds of lawyers.

'You know what prosecutors know a lot about? Fraud. Mortgage fraud.'

A federal jury agreed with Mosby convicting her of two counts of perjury last November.

In January at her second trial, the government alleged Mosby had lied repeatedly by applying for mortgages on the two properties, which were worth almost $1 million in total.

Mosby already sold the second home for $696,000. She paid $545,000 for the  eight-bedroom house in Kissimmee, near Disney World, in September 2020. 

Mosby faces up to 40 years in prison at her sentencing. Conviction on a single count of making a false mortgage application carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison. 

Mosby also faces up to five years in prison for each of the two perjury counts.

Mosby has said she was innocent of wrongdoing and the victim of a politically motivated prosecution by adversaries in the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office who were out to spoil her re-election chances. 

Earlier this week, Mosby revealed that she was seeking a presidential pardon.

The ex-prosecutor insisted to MSNBC's Joy Reid that she has done 'absolutely nothing wrong, nothing illegal, nothing criminal', and argued that Biden dismissing her conviction would be 'appropriate.' 

Mosby said her conviction was a 'political attack' against her, with Reid citing her decision to charge police officers involved in the controversial 2015 death of Freddie Gray as the reason she 'found herself on the other side of the courtroom.' 

In her interview with MSNBC, Reid said she was stunned that Mosby was prosecuted for withdrawing 'her own money', as she implied Mosby's past run-ins with Republicans may have made her a target. 

Mosby, a progressive whose soft-on-crime stance was blamed for soaring crime in murder-ravaged Baltimore, was notably indicted by Democrat US Attorney Erek Barron and her trial was overseen by Biden-nominated Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, reports Capital Gazette. 

Speaking about herself in the third-person, Mosby said she sees her past actions as State's Attorney as the reason she is facing prison, adding that she hopes the people she fought for will now step up to support her. 

'If they can do this to Marilyn Mosby, who had the audacity to challenge the status quo, they can do this to anybody,' she said. 

'I want this justice system that I fought so hard to equalize and to balance the scales of justice, where the business model is based off the backs of black and brown people.' 

Her call for a presidential pardon comes as an online petition to President Biden reached almost 10,000 signatures, which she did not launch herself but has reportedly been promoting. 

However, despite feeling a pardon would be 'appropriate', she also reportedly has not submitted an application to the Office of the Pardon Attorney, which reviews cases and makes recommendations to the president. 

When asked about the pardon, Mosby added: 'I know that I've done absolutely nothing wrong, nothing criminal, and to be separated from my children for 40 years as a result of withdrawing $90,000 of my own money, it just makes absolutely no sense.' 

'They have done this to demonize me, to vilify me, and to break me... I've lost everything.' 

But while Mosby argues her conviction is unjust, her critics said her 'failed leadership' while in office exacerbated Baltimore's crime problems. 

'The consequences of that failed leadership are going to last for generations,' Medal of Valor recipient and police officer Dave Goitia told DailyMail.com following her conviction in February. 

'The victims are the people of Baltimore that suffer violent crime because of a police department that is completely demoralized.' 

In particular, Mosby was criticized for her handling of the controversial death of Freddie Gray in 2015, whose death in police custody sparked riots and looting across the city until Mosby brought charges against six police officers who arrested him.

After she failed to convict any of the cops amid claims the charges were unjust - and the DOJ declined to press charges after a federal investigation - some in law enforcement argued she caved to pressure from rioters and targeted the officers as 'sacrificial lambs.'

Mosby also had her own brushes with the law, including a $45,000 tax lien on one of her fraudulent Florida properties despite reportedly earning almost $250,000 a year.

Mosby lost re-election in 2022 after being indicted by a federal grand jury, with her successor Ivan Bates taking a tougher stance on crime.