Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Sentenced
to Three Years in Federal Prison for
Corruption and Fraud…
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/27/2020 6:52:29 PM
Political leaders, specifically mayors in Baltimore Maryland, are predisposed toward corrupt behavior. (Snip)
Into the corrupt landscape comes Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who was arrested in 2019 for taking bribes and payoffs through a pay-to-play bribery scandal for books she “authored” called “Healthy Holly”. Want a city contract?…. buy her books, easy peasy.(Snip)[…] In handing down the prison sentence, which was to be followed by three years of probation, Chasanow called Pugh’s crime “astounding.”
“I have yet frankly to hear any explanation that makes sense,” the judge said. “This was not a tiny mistake, lapse of judgment. This became a very large fraud.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/27/2020 6:54:48 PM (No. 331570)
She'll have plenty of time to read those books somebody else wrote for her. I'm making a long assumption here that she can read.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/27/2020 6:55:53 PM (No. 331572)
FTA:
Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Clarke, the lead prosecutor on the case, said Pugh “deliberately and cunningly set out to deceive people” and to “rig an election to her advantage and cover it all up," referring to the 2016 Democratic mayoral primary.
Chasanow ordered Pugh to pay restitution of $400,000 to the medical system and nearly $12,000 to the Maryland Auto Insurance Fund, which also paid Pugh for books. She will have to forfeit nearly $670,000, including her Ashburton home and $17,800 in her campaign account. Also, Pugh agreed that all of her copies of “Healthy Holly” books, collected by the FBI in raids on her houses and offices, will be destroyed.
The judge spoke of the deterrent Pugh’s sentence could serve for other elected officials.
The female judge was appointed by Clinton. She showed no mercy, no matter how much Pugh begged...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/27/2020 6:56:47 PM (No. 331573)
Sorry for the double but sometimes it's just reflex.
The next installment in the series will be "Healthy Holly Finds Ways to Get Nutrition Out of Jail Food."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/27/2020 7:17:10 PM (No. 331587)
Since they didn’t identify her as a democrat, we know she is a democrat. This is resume enhancement material and she has s bright future ahead when she gets out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/27/2020 7:19:19 PM (No. 331590)
She must have peeved off the dirty B-more rats big time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/27/2020 7:20:48 PM (No. 331592)
That should translate into about 300 years for Hillary.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/27/2020 7:32:37 PM (No. 331605)
Let me guess. White male rebublican, right? What else could it be? For 50 years we have been told white male rebublicans are the root of all evil.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
scottj 2/27/2020 7:40:57 PM (No. 331611)
She learned this from Hillary Clinton. Every time Hillary runs for office she comes out with a book so you can bribe her by buying thousands of copies of it. Unfortunately for Catherine she doesnt have Hillary's blackmail skills to keep herself out of jail.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/27/2020 7:43:21 PM (No. 331614)
She will be out in a few months.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/27/2020 8:39:39 PM (No. 331628)
if she had delivered the crappy little books, would she have still been prosecuted?
will any of the recipient organizations be prosecuted?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/27/2020 8:54:22 PM (No. 331632)
The only thing that can be said?
Next!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/27/2020 9:01:34 PM (No. 331638)
Was Pugh the one who decided it would be a great idea to give rioters “space to destroy”?
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Small fish.
Why isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in federal prison? Why?!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/27/2020 10:25:22 PM (No. 331681)
This report shows much more restitution than the other article, so she doesn't seem to have made money.
Good to get a real punishment for a Dem politician.
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Take her wig collection too. That's Government property. Sorry Ma'am.
We could use these wigs while training the police dogs.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 2/28/2020 1:00:51 AM (No. 331732)
10 years would have been more like it. Bet she's never serves the full 3 years.
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Now the left wants that other harpy Corrine Brown from FL to be released. Keep them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/28/2020 2:26:06 AM (No. 331763)
Next book: Healthy Holly Goes to the Slammer
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/28/2020 3:42:37 AM (No. 331783)
Three years? Big deal. She'll be out in 2 months for either "good behavior" or "humanitarian" reasons.
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what a fine set of financial officers belonging to the firms that paid these bribes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Daria 2/28/2020 8:30:26 AM (No. 331878)
Mayor of a big city, incredible corruption and she got less time than Roger Stone. Think about that.
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