Baltimore mayor allegedly pocketed gift cards

Baltimore mayor allegedly pocketed gift cards
The Associated Press

Published: January 10, 2009

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/10/america/Baltimore-Mayor-Probe-Optional.php


BALTIMORE: From Best Buy to Saks Fifth Avenue, from Old Navy to Giorgio Armani, prosecutors allege Mayor Sheila Dixon went shopping in a big way with other people's money.

Dixon was indicted Friday on 12 counts, including perjury and theft, mostly for activity that occurred while she was City Council president. And most of the charges against her suggest an affinity for both high-end and big-box retail.

At one point in December 2005, the indictment says, Dixon brazenly called an unnamed developer and hit him up for $500 worth of Best Buy gift cards, which she said would be donated to needy families.

Instead, five days later — and a week before Christmas — the future mayor allegedly strolled into a Best Buy in downtown Baltimore and spent 19 of the 20 gift cards, walking out with a digital camcorder and a PlayStation 2 controller, among other goods.

Similar scenarios played out several times, always around Christmas, always with gift cards that, at least in name, were supposed to be handed out to the poor, the indictment says.

Rats!

that is why it is imperative that we elect better Democrats and not follow the Republican's model of excusing corruption for the sake of the party.


For the record, I do not equate sexual peccadilloes with corruption unless a politician's reputation is built condemning such peccadilloes.

In the instances of the right-wing blowhards getting caught with their pants down, it's the hypocrisy, not the sex.

Sex is good, and good for you! :smoke:

cant let Chicago get to far ahead in the crookedness race.