I skipped right to a comment without looking at the story to lodge my guess that Maryland has a strong population of government parasites and scammers.
Fortunately I live in NE Maryland, almost as far from that swamp-cesspool DC as is possible in Maryland.
If you must know, there are plenty of parasites, particularly clustered around DC and Baltimore.
Me too. Looks like our guess was right on the money judging by the comments.