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Ulysses Currie, who represents District 25 in Prince George's County in the Maryland State Senate, is chair of the powerful Budget and Taxation Committee.
Currie was originally elected to the House of Delegates in 1986, representing District 25 in Prince George's County. During his time in the House, he became majority whip, the third-ranking position in the House after the speaker and the majority leader. Currie has served in the state Senate since 1995.
In 2008, the FBI raided his District Heights home as part of an investigation into his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a Lanham-based grocery chain for which he worked without disclosing the employment...
Currie was originally elected to the House of Delegates in 1986, representing District 25 in Prince George's County. During his time in the House, he became majority whip, the third-ranking position in the House after the speaker and the majority leader. Currie has served in the state Senate since 1995.
In 2008, the FBI raided his District Heights home as part of an investigation into his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a Lanham-based grocery chain for which he worked without disclosing the employment...
Ulysses Currie, who represents District 25 in Prince George's County in the Maryland State Senate, is chair of the powerful Budget and Taxation Committee.
Currie was originally elected to the House of Delegates in 1986, representing District 25 in Prince George's County. During his time in the House, he became majority whip, the third-ranking position in the House after the speaker and the majority leader. Currie has served in the state Senate since 1995.
In 2008, the FBI raided his District Heights home as part of an investigation into his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a Lanham-based grocery chain for which he worked without disclosing the employment in ethics filings. Documents show that Currie repeatedly interceded in the state bureaucratic process on Shoppers' behalf. Currie has brushed aside concerns about his political future and is continuing with his legislative duties and working with constituents.
Currie, the son of a sharecropper, grew up in Whiteville, N.C. He was the first of his family to go to college and earned his undergraduate degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. After serving in the United States Army, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area to attend American University. Currie worked for 25 years as an educator in the Prince George's County Public Schools.
Currie was originally elected to the House of Delegates in 1986, representing District 25 in Prince George's County. During his time in the House, he became majority whip, the third-ranking position in the House after the speaker and the majority leader. Currie has served in the state Senate since 1995.
In 2008, the FBI raided his District Heights home as part of an investigation into his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a Lanham-based grocery chain for which he worked without disclosing the employment in ethics filings. Documents show that Currie repeatedly interceded in the state bureaucratic process on Shoppers' behalf. Currie has brushed aside concerns about his political future and is continuing with his legislative duties and working with constituents.
Currie, the son of a sharecropper, grew up in Whiteville, N.C. He was the first of his family to go to college and earned his undergraduate degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. After serving in the United States Army, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area to attend American University. Currie worked for 25 years as an educator in the Prince George's County Public Schools.
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Defending Senator Currie
State Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller may think he is protecting an able, hardworking and respected legislator. But his refusal to seek the temporary removal of Sen. Ulysses Currie as chairman of the powerful Senate Budget and Taxation Committee...Tags: Parliament, Budgets and Budgeting, Values, Labor Legislation, Government
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Miller says he won't ask Currie to step down
The president of the Maryland Senate said yesterday that Sen. Ulysses Currie's work for a regional grocery chain should be investigated by the General Assembly, but Sen. Thomas V. Mike Miller dismissed speculation that he would ask the Prince George's...Tags: Corruption, Values, Prince George's County, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian K McHale
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Currie was paid considerable sum
In The Sun's article, "Currie got over $200,000" (July 25), attorney Andrew D. Levy says he doesn't think that the $40,000 a year that state Sen. Ulysses Currie was paid by Shoppers Food Warehouse is "all that much." He thinks there is "nothing... -
Resign the chair as inquiry unfolds
In light of recent revelations of possible influence-peddling and ethics violations, state Sen. Ulysses Currie should resign his post as chairman of the state Senate's powerful Budget and Taxation Committee while the investigation continues ("Currie got...Tags: Ethics, Values, Labor Legislation
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Currie contacted Cabinet members
Sun reportersState Sen. Ulysses Currie, the subject of a federal investigation into alleged influence-peddling, acted as a liaison between top-ranking Cabinet members of the past two administrations and Shoppers Food Warehouse, newly released documents show. In one...Tags: Supervalu Inc., Corruption, Budgets and Budgeting, Office Needs, Prince George's County
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The week that was
Man electrocuted in Severna Park A contractor died after he fell into a hole in Severna Park and came into contact with a live power line, Anne Arundel County police said. Thomas Kikas Jr., an electrician trainee with Riggs Distler and Co., was...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, 1st Mariner Arena, Migration, Billy Casper, Corporate Crime
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Currie got over $200,000
Sun reportersState Sen. Ulysses Currie, whose work for Shoppers Food Warehouse is being investigated by the FBI's public corruption squad, was paid more than $200,000 by the regional grocery chain over five years, according to documents unsealed yesterday. Federal...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Laws, Building Material, Prince George's County, Labor Legislation
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Projects are nice; but so are ethics
Over at Mondawmin Mall yesterday, shoppers negotiated their way through the ripped-up parking lots and blocked-off construction sites of a continuing $70 million project that promises to reverse the shopping center's long, slow decline. The talk was of...Tags: Public Officials, Prosecution, Contracts, Corruption, Spiro Agnew
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Currie can get papers
sun ReporterState Sen. Ulysses Currie is entitled to have copies of materials seized from his home during an FBI raid in May, as well as the search warrant affidavit filed by the U.S. attorney's office, federal Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm ruled yesterday. Currie,...Tags: Prosecution, Prince George's County, Economic Policy, Government, Prisons
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Campaign funds unlikely to be allowed for Currie's defense
Sun ReporterThe state attorney general's office has said that Sen. Ulysses Currie may not use campaign funds to pay for his legal defense in a federal investigation if the probe "relates to his conduct in office" - as it appears to do. Last month, the Prince George'...Tags: Supervalu Inc., Office Needs, Prince George's County, William H Murphy, Finance
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Currie linked to mall plan
Sun reportersState Sen. Ulysses Currie, whose ties to Shoppers Food and Pharmacy are under federal investigation, intervened several times in recent years on behalf of the grocery store chain when it was seeking public financing and other concessions as part of the...Tags: Howard P Rawlings, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Prince George's County, Economic Policy, Government
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Dixon gifts probed
Sun reportersProsecutors are investigating whether Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon received thousands of dollars in gifts - including fur coats - from a prominent developer whose projects benefited from tax breaks and zoning changes she supported as City Council...Tags: Air Transportation, Lynn Anderson, Prosecution, Prince George's County, Government
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