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Baltimore mayor resigns from board of U.-Md. Medical System
[OUTLINE] Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has resigned from the board of the University of Maryland Medical System following a controversy involving a deal with the hospital system to buy her children’s books.Last week, Pugh (D) and others on the health system’s board were criticized by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and top state politicians for the financial deals with the hospital system and possible conflicts of interest. On a financial disclosure form, Pugh listed a $100,000 profit for one year from selling 20,000 copies of her self-published children’s book series "Healthy Holly" to the University of Maryland health system, which runs 13 hospitals including the state’s trauma unit in Baltimore and has connections with the state’s dental and medical schools. Hogan described the financial contracts, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, as "appalling" and "unseemly." Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) called them "self-dealing" and "a huge disaster." Posted by: Fred 2019-03-21 |
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