I go way back to when Tom D'Alasandro (sp) was mayor of Baltimore. Political corruption was an artform with those people.
The mayor of Baltimore now is O'Malley son-in-law of the MD. Attorney General, Joseph Curran Jr. whose daughter is a Circuit Court Judge (I think).
They are just carrying on that fine family tradition.
Curran's former head of his criminal division,Lnne Battaglia was the U.S. Attorney for Maryland during the Clinton administration, she is now a judge on the MD. Court of Appeals.