Catherine Pugh (D-MD), the former mayor of Baltimore who resigned in disgrace six months ago, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and tax evasion on Thursday afternoon.
Prosecutors say that Pugh, with the help of a legislative aide, used her “Healthy Holly” children’s book series to defraud customers and resell books for her own personal and political gain, according to the indictment released Wednesday. An “overwhelming” number of the books were not sold to laypersons or vendors, but to nonprofit organizations, “many of whom did business with the Maryland State government and Baltimore City.”
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