A federal investigation is reportedly underway with Baltimore’s top prosecutor and her politician husband at the center of the probe.

Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, and her husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, are being investigated for potential campaign finance violations, according to Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton tweeted Friday afternoon. He described the husband and wife as “Baltimore’s power couple” and added that there were “authorities issuing subpoenas for financial information as well as to city churches.”

The Mosbys’ lawyer called the investigation a “political witch hunt in its purest form” and said his clients had committed no wrongdoings.

UPDATE: Attorney for the Mosbys calls federal investigation a “political witch hunt in its purest form,” says they are being unfairly targeted because they are “progressive change agents.” Says they will cooperate and “fight for the truth to come out” https://t.co/OXWgWsCLh3 https://t.co/VseKRVLQlX

— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) March 19, 2021

The full statement from the Mosbys’ attorney follows below.

“On behalf of Nick and Marilyn Mosby, my clients are progressive change agents, making them unfair targets of unnecessary scrutiny by federal investigators. Nevertheless, I can assure you and the people of Baltimore, they have done nothing illegal, inappropriate or unlawful. This is a political witch hunt in its purest form, and both of them will vigorously, and fully defend themselves. In the interim, I’ve advised them to refrain from making any further comments, on these matters. As they’ve done with every other baseless charge and investigation lodged against them, they have every intent to fully cooperate with the investigation, to fight for the truth to come out, while continuing to fight for the citizens of a city that they both love, and are blessed to serve.”

Union Baptist Church in Baltimore was subpoenaed and its lawyer told the local Fox News affiliate that investigators wanted to know how much money the Mosbys give to the house of worship.

“I spend more monthly at Starbucks than the Mosby’s gave during the time period,” the attorney, Robert Fulton Dashiell, said, adding that the total was less than $200.

An independent news outlet called Baltimore Brew published a report Wednesday claiming state’s attorney Mosby “paid $11,000 to a Washington law firm that acted on [her] personal behalf, which is a prohibited practice under Maryland election law.”

It was not immediately clear if that allegation is connected to the reported federal investigation of the Mosbys.

This is a developing story that will be updated as additional information becomes available.

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