Name that party--Baltimore

Baltimore Sun:

Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon was charged today by the state prosecutor in a 12-count indictment, becoming the city's first sitting mayor indicted on criminal offenses.

Dixon was charged with four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500, as well as theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office. The charges stem in part from gifts she received from former boyfriend and developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, who was also charged earlier this week.

Dixon, a Democrat, has been the target of a nearly three-year probe by State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh into corruption at City Hall, an investigation that has centered on allegations that Dixon has used her office to award lucrative contracts to various people including her sister, her then-boyfriend and her former campaign chairman.

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Over the course of the wide-ranging investigation, two people with ties to Dixon have pleaded guilty, and state officials spent seven hours searching the mayor's Hunting Ridge home.

No Baltimore mayor has run afoul of the law since the Civil War, when the mayor was accused and imprisoned when the city was under military occupation.

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Baltimore has the reputation as being very corrupt. Some of that corruption was expose on the TV show The Wire. Props to the Sun for exposing the perps party in the third paragraph of the story. I suspect that Democrats elsewhere in Maryland have reason for uncertainty about their future. Some could be waiting for the Obama administration to bail them out.

With corruption cases possible in Detroit, Illinois and New Mexico the Democrats have much to clean up.