Gift Card Scandal Could Sink Baltimore Mayor (yet another corrupt Dem from the Freak State)

AP / Newsmax ^ | 2009-11-07

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BALTIMORE -- Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon is about to put her political future in the hands of a jury.

Dixon goes on trial Monday on theft charges. She's accused of hitting up her wealthy developer pals to donate thousands of dollars' worth of gift cards to needy families. Prosecutors say she used those gift cards for her personal shopping instead.

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Dixon had a brief affair with Mr. Lipscomb, one of the city’s most prominent developers, when she was City Council president. Prosecutors say he spent thousands of dollars on her for travel and shopping sprees, even as he was appearing before the Board of Estimates, which she chaired, to seek millions in city tax breaks for his projects. In one case, prosecutors say, she voted on one of his projects in the morning and hopped on a train with him to New York that afternoon.

Dixon insisted as City Council president that more municipal business go to a company that employed her sister, the firm was bogus and incapable of doing the work in question

Dale G. Clark, Ms. Dixon’s former campaign chairman, who was paid $600,000 over six years to develop a computer system for the City Council. He had no contract for five of those years and was instructed by Ms. Dixon’s staff to submit bills in increments of less than $5,000, the amount that requires Board of Estimates approval.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2009/11/upcoming_editorial_the_answers.html

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[ronniesgal]

yes it is.

[ronniesgal]

man do I miss The Wire!!!!

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/11/06/will-crooked-congressional-black-caucus-members-crying-lying-and-embarrassing-democrats-next-year/

[cyclotic]

I’m moving to Baltimore in two weeks. I thought Michigan was bad, but this place sounds like a zoo. I’m giving deep consideration to the best way to protect myself.