Posted on 08/29/2015 6:01:45 PM PDT by markomalley
n assistant attorney general asked Friday for a state ethics commission ruling on whether former Gov. Martin O'Malley's purchase of furniture from the governor's mansion violated rules regarding state-owned property.
When O'Malley and his family moved out of the mansion in January, they left with most of its taxpayer-purchased furnishings — 54 items that he bought at steep discounts because every piece had been declared "junk" by his administration.
O'Malley and his wife, Baltimore District Judge Catherine Curran O'Malley, paid $9,638 for armoires, beds, chairs, desks, lamps, mirrors, ottomans, tables and other items that originally cost taxpayers $62,000, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
The Department of General Services sold the furniture to the O'Malleys, who together earned $270,000 in state salaries last year, without seeking bids or notifying the public that the items were available for sale.
An agency rule prohibits preferential sales of state-owned property to government officials. On Friday, the assistant attorney general at the department asked the state ethics commission to determine whether the sale violated the prohibition.
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Disgusting greedy bastards.
But, NO - he and his wife are just a couple of gruberment royals, used to committing fraud with the taxpayer dime like most of their fellows.
They should have just taken it and (if caught) claimed they thought it was meant for them personally.
Had they done so many Freepers would probably support them, since said Freepers did exactly that on a previous gubernatorial furniture incident.
Who was that?
Huckabee.
Wait — Is this the guy who is running for the Democrat presidential nomination?? And he’s being investigated? Hmmm.
Looking at the items and the prices, it seems to me that his underpayment was not that great.
Anyone familiar with the market for modern used furniture knows that it is very difficult to get any sort of decent price. The same thing is true of lesser antiques and vintage furniture. Anything that is at all big and heavy is a tough sell at auction.
Never been partial to the Arkansas Barrage Balloon, myself...
...shortly after he criticized the DNC about it being a coronation of HIllary...
Nothing out of the ordinary here. O’Malley is a politician. Most politicians are corrupt. Besides, someone will find precedent involving a Republicrat and that will make it all hunky dory.
...shortly after he criticized the DNC about it being a coronation of HIllary...
By their fruits year shall know them.
But the true believers desperately want him to be Dwight L. Moody or Billy Graham. Even when he is selling them Lindsay Graham they believe.
I smell Sir Hilary Rodham. Revenge of a woman scorned.
Isn’t it interesting. How everyone except Biden is having issues.
I want to know if the furniture was declared to be junk, why did they want it bad enough to steal it with an artificially engineered low price and cart it home? And kindly enlighten me as to the short story concerning the second sentence in your reply...
But if you think about it. Liberals are used to using taxpayers' money to spend. Why spend their own cash? Crooks, all of them.
NM, I saw you named Huckabee. Did he pay for the stuff eventually? I remember Hillary tried to take everything from the white house that wasn’t nailed down, the thieving, low-class white trash whore.
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