BREAKING: Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigns amid criminal investigation over children's book
Embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who has been away from the job amid a corruption scandal centered around a children’s book, announced her resignation through her lawyer on Thursday.
of Pugh, who is under state investigation over hundreds of thousands of dollars earned selling her"Healthy Holly" series of children’s books to a health plan that does business with the city and a University of Maryland medical system she once helped oversee. “She is physically still ill and she is obviously emotionally extremely distraught and I feel terrible for her as a human being,” he said last week, adding that Pugh was entitled to the presumption of innocence and she had apologized to the people of Baltimore.
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