Baltimore’s police commissioner. The cops from a rogue squad. Even the mayor herself. All of them convicted or put away this year by assistant U.S. attorneys in Baltimore.
Here’s what comes next after former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's pleaded guilty Thursday to four criminal counts related to the sale of her “Healthy Holly” children’s books.
One of two people charged in the 2018 death of a South Baltimore woman whose body was found inside a burning house was convicted of murder in Baltimore Circuit Court this week.
The number turned out to be for an outreach worker for Roca, an intensive anti-violence program that focuses on the city’s most at-risk young men by enrolling them into programs that aim to change their behavior.
Two men were shot overnight in Southwest and East Baltimore and another homicide was reported early Thursday morning in the northwestern part of the city, according to Baltimore police.
The 34-page indictment sheds new light on the way ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh allegedly sold and resold her books and pocketed the money to pay for a bigger house and pad her campaign chest.
A hearing Thursday will bring former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s first courtroom appearance in a criminal fraud case that prosecutors have been quietly and methodically building for years.
Federal prosecutors have charged former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh in what they allege was a corrupt scheme involving her sales of a self-published children’s book series.
According to federal prosecutors, the massive book sales of former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh were really a racket — built on a ruse that saw Pugh increase her profits time and again by intentionally double-selling the books by the thousands, first to one paying customer and then to another.
Ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was charged Wednesday with 11 counts of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy in an alleged corruption scheme involving a series of self-published children’s books.
Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh used money from double-selling her self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books to fund straw donations to her 2016 campaign and buy herself a bigger house right after she was sworn in, court documents allege.
An audit is faulting the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention for not having clear guidelines for awarding crime grants and not always following up to ensure that the money was spent properly.
Letting a balloon float away in Maryland would draw in a fine of $250, under a bill sponsored by Sen. Clarence Lam, D-Howard and Baltimore counties, legislation that is similar to a Queen Anne’s County law.
