Posted on 03/14/2020 3:57:11 AM PDT by Libloather
BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore businessman pleaded guilty Monday to two federal charges stemming from bribes totaling $42,500 that he paid to a former state lawmaker while she was still in office.
Lance Andre Lucas pleaded guilty to federal honest services wire fraud and a travel act violation, admitting to bribing former state Del. Cheryl Diane Glenn. The veteran Democratic lawmaker and leading advocate of marijuana legalization pleaded guilty in January to accepting more than $33,000 in bribes from people other than Lucas.
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Lucas made 11 payments to Glenn, starting with four money orders, each for $500, on May 2018 after he told her about the significant costs that an unnamed company had incurred in its pursuit of a medical marijuana dispensary license. During a lunch meeting in Baltimore, Glenn suggested she would have drafted a bill benefiting the company had he paid her the money spent in the effort to get the license, according to the charging document.
Lucas paid the bulk of the money after Glenn had already been interviewed by FBI agents in February 2019 and admitted to receiving $33,750 in exchange for granting various legislative favors, including work relevant to the marijuana industry. Lucas' attorney, Jerry Tarud, after the hearing said some of his clients' interactions with Glenn were wiretapped.
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Apparently it doesn't take much to bribe a RAT.
Following in the footsteps of thier mentors in high places.
The comical side of this is that the ‘business-man’ had this idea that a marijuana-dispensary license would be a money-maker.
They only make real money, if you can tightly control the license game, and ensure no one has a shop within five miles of your license area. In Maryland, I would imagine over 1,500 people were attempting to get licenses over the entire state. Unless you hinder that by getting political ‘thug-help’...you probably will end up running a almost flat non-profit weed shop.
No need to look, the usual crooked Baltimore politician type.
There wouldn't be much point to bribing her if she wasn't in office, would there?
The marijuana industry, with democrat party support, does its evil work in nefarious ways.
Bkmrk
Yup - licensing of anything is an opportunity for pols to collect bribes; that's why we have an overlicensed society.
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