Posted on 11/20/2019 11:02:45 PM PST by caww
In 2016 when she was a state senator and ran for mayor, she told the Internal Revenue Service she had made just $31,000. In fact, her income was more than $322,000 that year ― meaning she shorted the federal government of about $100,000 in taxes, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The charges Pugh faces carry potential sentences totaling 175 years in prison. Prosecutors are seeking to seize $769,688 of her profits, along with her current home in Ashburton, which they allege she bought and renovated with fraudulently obtained funds.
Two of Pugh’s associates ― longtime aide Gary Brown Jr. and Roslyn Wedington, the director of a nonprofit Pugh championed ― have agreed to plead guilty in the investigation, according to just-unsealed agreements.....Brown, 38, an aide to Pugh as a state senator and mayor, pleaded guilty earlier this month to four counts: one for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one for filing a false tax return, and two for conspiring to defraud the United States.
Wedington, 50, pleaded guilty in September to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and five counts of filing false tax returns. According to her plea deal, she “knowingly filed false tax returns" each year from 2013 to 2017, with Brown’s help.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Does she have a twin that goes by “Mad Maxine”?
She will be tried in a federal court in Baltimore. Just the jury pool she needs. Chances of acquittal, nearly certain.
I don’t think that would work....she’s facing 175 years...she could get a lighter sentence but she’s going to do time....this was a long investigation. Plus her two cohorts are going to talk as well..
Well color me “surprised”!
“What, Mr. Governor, another Baltimore mayor is a criminal and going to jail? Shocking, I tell you, just shocking”.
Hey Baltimore, you’re gonna need a bigger jail just for the mayors and city council members who are in or are going to jail.
That pretty woman is a bad apple? Certainly looks like an upstanding, honest, and of course, totally stylish old girl. Plus highly intelligent.
As if.
Jeez, imagine that thing without the wig.
I can’t tell if she looks more like a camel, a carp, or that salt vampire from Star Trek.
Something out of starwars, Im sure Cummings and his wifes name comes up
And the MSM will switch over from impeachment to this immediately...not.
News this morning that she’s already pled guilty.
News this morning that she’s already pled guilty.
That cannot possibly be! She dinndoonuffin.
LOL
Nice wig. Ping!
I live in Baltimore and have seen her on TV a lot. The name that pops up in my mind every time she’s on is “Nematode”. That’s a worm-like critter.
I do not know the details of the supposed illness she had earlier this year, but if it turned out to be cancer, the wig could be covering up a bald head. As for the emaciated appearance, she’s also a runner, and some lady runners are scary-skinny.
im sure its all a big mistake! rev al can fix it and make it all better...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
And, in addition to chemo making her bald (if it IS cancer), she might not be eating much if she’s taking chemo.
Lady runner on chemo: super skinny. (I’m a cancer survivor, BTW, who knows what 1980s-era chemo is like, so I figure that my judgements are sound enough.)
How many paragraphs does it take before we know Her Honor is a democrat?
The press is sooooooo corrupt.
If a Republican had done this the party would have been mentioned in the headline.
Baltimore seems to have more than its share of powerful people who are both incompetent and corrupt ... not a good combination.
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