{"id":177940,"date":"2019-04-26T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/26\/local-baltimore-pol-makes-the-big-time\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:07:00","slug":"local-baltimore-pol-makes-the-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/26\/local-baltimore-pol-makes-the-big-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Baltimore Pol Makes the Big Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The FBI and IRS have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-baltimore-20190424-story.html\">raided the offices and home of Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hauling out boxes of \u201cHealthy Holly\u201d books and documents, dozens of federal law enforcement agents Thursday struck homes, businesses and government buildings across Baltimore as an investigation into Mayor Catherine Pugh\u2019s business dealings widened.<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/business\/internal-revenue-service-ORGOV000010-topic.html\">IRS<\/a> officials executed search warrants at her City Hall office, Pugh\u2019s two houses, and offices of the mayor\u2019s allies, as the growing scandal consumed the city\u2019s attention, generated national headlines and provoked fresh calls for the embattled Democratic mayor\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is too much for our city,\u201d Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen said. \u201cIt puts all of us under a tremendous strain, and again it is not fair either to the people that live here, or the people that work here.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The short version of this is that Pugh is accused of using her office to push sales of her self-published &#8220;Healthy Holly&#8221; children&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>It really amazes me just how petty and small time corruption typically is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI and IRS have raided the offices and home of Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh: Hauling out boxes of \u201cHealthy Holly\u201d books and documents, dozens of federal law enforcement agents Thursday struck homes, businesses and government buildings across Baltimore as an investigation into Mayor Catherine Pugh\u2019s business dealings widened. FBI agents and IRS officials executed &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":[368,466,374],"class_list":["post-177940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-maryland","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177940"}],"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=177940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}