Call me an outlier but….nothing she did in these charges really hurt anybody.
She withdrew money out of her retirement plan early by using covid excuse to fudge the rules, and she lied on a couple loan applications to lower her interest rate on buying investment properties.
Ho hum. No capital offenses here.
Ought to be a civil case by the lenders and a slap on the wrist and tax penalties by the pension fund
However, her credibility as a city attorney…is gone.
However, her credibility as a city attorney…is gone.
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True but it won’t necessarily damage her aspirations for higher state office. Its Maryland don’t you know.
Financial fraud is bad enough for the average joe, and some people might somehow be unaware that if you like on a bank loan application you can get into a world of trouble. Maybe.
She’s not that guy though.. She’s a lawyer, an officer of the court. I realize that lawyers don’t have the greatest reputations, but everyone I personally know in that trade is fully aware of the hot water they could get into with this sort of thing.
But it gets worse for her. She’s supposed to be the chief prosecutor for Baltimore, IOW, one of the top two LE officials in the county, the other being the elected sheriff.
There is no excuse for this. Just imagine if a Republican DA had tried anything remotely like this, CNN would have wall-to-wall coverage for weeks.