The raids come amid widening probes to determine whether Catherine Pugh used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks
FBI and IRS agents raided the homes and offices of Baltimore’s embattled mayor on Thursday amid widening probes to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.
As federal agents gathered boxes of evidence in the mayor’s office and police cordoned off her homes with yellow tape, City Council member Brandon Scott called the raids “an embarrassment to the city.” Pugh said she was going on leave on the same day Hogan asked for the investigation of her “Healthy Holly” book sales, which earned about $800,000 for her limited liability company.Since then, the first-term mayor has been asked to resign by the entire lineup of the current City Council, all Baltimore lawmakers in Maryland’s House of Delegates, the influential Greater Baltimore Committee business group and others.
Members of Pugh’s communications staff have said repeatedly that she intends to return to City Hall when she is feeling better, but have declined to provide any timetable.
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