FBI Raids Baltimore Mayor’s Home and City Hall
25th April 2019
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Baltimore is the city ZMan calls ‘Lagos on the Chesapeake’.
The 69-year-old mayor is under investigation by the Maryland Office of the State Prosecutor after selling her books to University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) for $500,000 while on the system’s board.
Baltimore City Council members called on Pugh to resign in an April 8 letter. Pugh’s office said she “fully intends” to return to her position, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Urban corruption appears to be stereotypically Democrat; certainly Republicans have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar (especially in Illinois, thanks, I suspect, to the Chicago influence), but Democrats certainly seem to comprise over 95% of them. The great political machines — Tweed in New York, Pendergast in Kansas City, Daley in Chicago — were all Democratic.
UPDATE: Feds Raid Baltimore Mayor’s Homes As ‘Children’s Book’ Corruption Scandal Snowballs