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How the mayor’s children’s books set off a scandal in Baltimore

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How the mayor’s children’s books set off a scandal in Baltimore

Apr 28 2019

The political corruption scandal roiling Baltimore, leading to an FBI raid of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s house Thursday morning, all began with a children’s book.

Pugh, who has been serving as the city’s mayor since 2016, is at the center of a controversy that started with the revelation in March that she’d sold her children’s books, the Healthy Holly series, to entities that have business deals with the city, including a $500,000 deal with the University of Maryland Medical System and a similar deal with health company Kaiser Permanente...

Source: Vox

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