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Maryland governor calls on Baltimore mayor to resign following FBI raid
[THEGUARDIAN] Maryland’s governor has called on the mayor of Baltimore to resign.The state’s governor, Larry Hogan, a Republican, called on Thursday morning for Catherine Pugh to leave office "for the good of the city". Agents with the FBI and Internal Revenue Service carried out a raid on Baltimore city hall and two homes belonging to the mayor on Thursday morning, amid widening investigations to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks. "Mayor Pugh has lost the public trust" and was "clearly not fit to lead", Hogan added. Dave Fitz, an FBI front man, confirmed to the local paper that search warrants were being executed at those locations early on Thursday morning, according to a Baltimore Sun report. Pugh had previously stepped aside temporarily following a growing scandal involving her sales of self-published children’s books, and amid declining public confidence. The troubled city is still embroiled in the fallout of shattered trust between many neighborhoods in the city and the police department following the death of a young African American man, Freddie Gray, after being transported in a police van in 2015. Posted by: Fred 2019-04-25 |
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