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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Headed To Alabama Women's Prison, Asking For Delay Again


BALTIMORE (WJZ) ‐ Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh will serve her time in an Alabama women's prison, according to court records.

Pugh, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in the Healthy Holly children's book scandal, is asking for a delay so that she can "resolve" her state perjury charge as the coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of courts.

She was sentenced on February 27 to three years in prison. Pugh must turn herself in by April 27; she was granted a delay her incarceration on March 2 after she asked a judge if she could stay in her home with her niece until the semester ended.

According to the motion, she's assigned to serve her sentence at a medium-security prison, Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville.

She's now asking for another delay because she's been "adversely affected" by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her perjury court date was moved to May 14.

"To require the defendant to surrender to BOP custody in Alabama to only to then have to ben returned to Maryland for the final adjudication of her state law charges, serves no legitimate purpose," the motion states.

It also says travel could create more delays for her perjury case in May and would also affect the BOP programs she could benefit from while in the Alabama facility that would allow her early release to a halfway house. Her lawyer also said while delayed, it would give them time to ask for Pugh to serve at a facility closer to her family. The Alabama prison is 877 miles away from Baltimore and would be a 14-hour drive.

According to the motion, Pugh wants to serve her sentence in West Virginia.

The 70-year-old pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in November, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and two counts of tax evasion.

She had been accused of defrauding people who bought her "Healthy Holly" children's books out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, then using the money to fund her campaign for mayor.

The veteran Democratic politician was elected mayor in 2016 and resigned in May after authorities began investigating bulk sales of her "Healthy Holly" paperbacks that netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Posted by: Clem || 04/09/2020 14:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  awesome graphic, but Jar-Jar won't be getting any of that loving :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#2  She had been accused of defrauding people who bought her "Healthy Holly" children's books out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, then using the money to fund her campaign for mayor.

Why not just graft like normal mayors do?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/09/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #2: Why not just graft like normal mayors do?

Yes, greed or graft and the accompanying monetary gain. The other Rantburg absolute, pneumatic bliss. The two dynamics that make the world go around.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||


Sen. Loeffler's Stock Liquidation ‘is essentially a guilty plea,' says opponent Doug Collins
[SaraCarter] Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her CEO husband will liquidate their individual stock share positions, after more than a month of controversy over purchases and sales of millions of dollars of stocks during the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, but her Senate challenger’s campaign team says it’s nothing short of ’a guilty plea.’

"She’s less credible than the Chinese government. Same advisors, different funds and no blind trust? We’re not buying it," said Dan McGlan, spokesman for Rep. Doug Collins


Loeffler issued her statement Wednesday in an opinion editorial submitted to the Wall Street Journal. Loeffler announced that she and her husband CEO Jeff Sprecher would be liquidating those stocks shortly after her interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and a day after SaraACarter.com published a story regarding her failure to name the broker of her stock portfolio.

Loeffler, however, continued to defend her stock sales and said that "I have never used any confidential information I received while performing my Senate duties as a means of making a private profit." She posted her opinion piece on Twitter with a statement saying "my husband and I are liquidating our holdings in managed accounts."

"I’m not doing this because I have to. I’m doing it to move beyond the distraction and put the focus back on the essential work we must all do to defeat the coronavirus," she added.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2020 05:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I’m not doing this because I have to. I’m doing it to move beyond the distraction and put the focus back on the essential work we must all do to defeat the coronavirus," she added.

Can't we just have a....Normal conversation and talk about my 1983 prized 4H heifer ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  She wants to move back to Illinois. "Hanging out with those rednecks? Nothing is worth that!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  And to be closer to the Chicago Board of Trade.
Posted by: Clem || 04/09/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  She can take her carpet bag with her and hubby.
Posted by: Cholutch Shereper2174 || 04/09/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care with coronavirus
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2020 14:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good news.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Absolutely. Great to see.
Posted by: Clem || 04/09/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Tears shed in all the world's corporate newsrooms.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Look back: 2015 deal by Hunter Biden/Chris Heinz's private eq firm + Bank of China + AvIndustry Corporation of China to buy US dual-use parts manufacturer Henniges
[NYPost] Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids
Posted by: Lex || 04/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't wait to see the attack ads by Team Trump this fall - and to see Plugz's defense of his son's deal with ChiComs after flying to Beijing with Dad...
Posted by: Lex || 04/09/2020 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  If creepy/sleepy Joe is even the candidate.
Posted by: Clem || 04/09/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Kerry/Biden equity now want some of that coronavirus koolade from the gov't....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/09/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Should Mr. Biden stumble into the Presidency, I'm certain he will, in short order, bring the Unlucky Eight to the Unlucky Nine.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/09/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2020-04-09
  Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan Al-Zurfi withdraws his candidacy
Wed 2020-04-08
  Pakistan Scrambles to Quarantine 100,000 Who Attended Tablighi Jamaat Event
Tue 2020-04-07
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