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City Lawyer: Mayor Didn’t Violate Ethics Law
BALTIMORE (AP) — Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did not violate city ethics laws by voting on contracts involving Johns Hopkins University, despite her husband’s employment with a Hopkins subsidiary,...
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Senator Currie’s Ethics Still In Question After Bribery Acquittal
BALTIMORE (WJZ)— Growing calls for Senator Ulysses Currie to face ethics charges in the Maryland General Assembly despite his being acquitted on all charges in a federal bribery case. Derek Valcourt...
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Procurement Officer At SHA Leaves Agency
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The director of the Maryland State Highway Administration’s procurement office is no longer with the agency four months after an audit found ethical lapses in the agency’s...
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General Assembly Panel To Decide If Sen. Currie Violated State Ethics
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)– A powerful state senator stripped of his chairmanship. Now, a legislative committee decides if he violated state ethics. Political reporter Pat Warren reports on what’s ahead for...
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New Ethics Panel To Consider Fines, Disclosures
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A new ethics panel of seven state senators will consider posting Maryland lawmakers’ financial disclosure statements online and establishing sanctions that could include fines for...
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Md. Sen. Seeks To Put Financial Disclosures Online
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin plans to introduce legislation next week that would require lawmakers and eventually thousands of government employees to file their financial...
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Ethics Panel Meets Again On Currie
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly’s ethics panel has met again to consider a Prince George’s County senator’s failure to disclose work for a grocery store chain. The Joint Committee...
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Md. Senate President Mike Miller Expects Ethics Recommendations Next Week
ANNNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Sen. President Thomas V. Mike Miller says he expects an ethics panel to make recommendations regarding a former senator’s failure to disclose work he did for a grocery...
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Ethics Committee Finishes Report On Currie
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly’s joint ethics committee has completed a report it plans to send to the Senate on recommended actions for a state senator who failed to disclose work...
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Ethics Panel Recommends Currie Be Censured & Barred From Leadership Posts
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)– Cleared of corruption charges. Now, the once-powerful State Sen. Ulysses Currie will soon be disciplined by his fellow lawmakers. Mike Hellgren explains the just-released...
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Report: Garagiola Omitted Lobbying On Md. Forms
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland state senator running for Congress may have violated state ethics rules by failing to report for three years his employment by a Washington lobbying firm. The...
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Baltimore’s Top IT Official Resigns After N.Y. Audit
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top information technology official has resigned after an audit detailed alleged ethical violations he committed while working for New York state government. The audit says...
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Committee Amends Bill To Put Ethics Forms Online
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The House of Delegates removed some provisions of a Senate bill to put public official’s public officials’ ethical and financial disclosure forms online, but the sponsor said the...
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Md. State Sen. Garagiola Gets Ethics Reprimand
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — State Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola is being reprimanded for an ethics violation linked to his employment by a Washington lobbying firm from 2001-03. The Joint Committee on...
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Rawlings-Blake Defends Herself Against Allegations Of Ethics Violations
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The investigation continues into whether Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s acceptance of free tickets to city events is ethical behavior. Rochelle Ritchie has the mayor’s defense. The...
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Md. Dems Seek U.S. Ethics Probe Of Bartlett, Mooney
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Democratic Party is seeking a congressional ethics investigation of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett’s employment of state Republican Party chairman Alex Mooney while Mooney was...
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Mayor Rawlings-Blake Weighs In On Ethics Director
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she thinks the City Council should be responsible for overseeing the city’s ethics director. The duty falls to a board on which...
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Frederick Commissioner Ignored Ethics Ruling
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Frederick County commissioner says he ignored a local ethics board ruling barring his construction firm from doing work subject to county inspection. The Frederick News-Post...
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Legislative Ethics Panel To Meet
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s legislative ethics panel has scheduled a meeting, after a newspaper wrote about a complaint filed against a lawmaker. The Washington Post reported that the panel will...
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Md. Lawmaker Says Campaign Misidentified $50K Loan
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland lawmaker told a newspaper this week that his campaign repeatedly misidentified the source of a $50,000 loan it received in 2009 as coming from his law practice’s escrow...
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