{"id":177915,"date":"2019-05-05T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/05\/bye-felicia-catherine\/"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:40:00","slug":"bye-felicia-catherine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/05\/bye-felicia-catherine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Felicia Catherine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/baltimore-mayor-catherine-pugh-resigns\">has resigned following multiple criminal investigations of the sales of her self-published children&#8217;s book series<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh (D) resigned in disgrace through her attorney Thursday after weeks of temporary leave coinciding with the unfurling scandal of her self-dealing children\u2019s book scheme.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI am sorry for the harm that I have caused to the image of the city of Baltimore and the credibility of the office of the mayor,\u201d Pugh\u2019s attorney, Steven Silverman, read from a statement. \u201cBaltimore deserves a mayor that can move our great city forward.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Pugh\u2019s resignation is effective immediately<\/p>\n<p>Using her children\u2019s series \u201cHealthy Holly,\u201d Pugh cut multiple book deals with organizations that do business with the city and other organizations she oversaw.<\/p>\n<p>In the first break in the case, the Baltimore Sun revealed that she did not disclose that she\u2019d received $500,000 from the University of Maryland medical system since 2011, while she sat on its board.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It really is remarkable just how petty and small time this all is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has resigned following multiple criminal investigations of the sales of her self-published children&#8217;s book series: Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh (D) resigned in disgrace through her attorney Thursday after weeks of temporary leave coinciding with the unfurling scandal of her self-dealing children\u2019s book scheme. \u201cI am sorry for the harm that I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,439,466],"class_list":["post-177915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}