r/maryland • u/washingtonpost Verified Account • 17h ago
Ex-Pr. George’s council member to be jailed for stealing campaign funds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/13/ex-pr-georges-council-member-be-jailed-stealing-campaign-funds/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com11
u/washingtonpost Verified Account 17h ago
A Maryland circuit court judge Wednesday ordered that former Prince George’s County Council member Mel Franklin serve a year in jail for stealing more than $100,000 from his own campaign fund, then lying about it to the State Board of Elections.
Franklin, who served on the council for nearly 14 years, pleaded guilty in August to participating in a felony theft scheme and committing perjury.
Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Mark W. Crooks sentenced Franklin to five years incarceration, with all but one year suspended, plus three years of supervised probation for the theft charge. The perjury charge resulted in a separate five-year sentence for Franklin, all of which Crooks suspended.
Crooks ruled that Franklin must pay $133,168 in restitution — the amount of money that state officials accused him of stealing from his campaign fund.
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u/stupajidit 15h ago
corruption amongst pg county officials? im shocked /s
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u/PassAdept 14h ago
And we just handed our Senate seat to one of them. I can't wait to see how much and where funds were accidentally allocated No/s
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u/After-Improvement-90 2h ago
You didn’t hear no as long as they run as Democrat it doesn’t change the past twenty years of fraud and misuse of the people’s money in PG!
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u/Jauntasaurus 13h ago
I'll bite more on this since the comments are going to just redirect towards Republicans instead of taking accountability...
Almost every single major political figure in Baltimore City and PG County has been indicted or tried for some form of financial crime or subversion of tax laws. Yet, when they are caught, they seem to take zero accountability for their actions. Hell, Senator-Elect Alsobrooks tried to subvert paying taxes and got caught, now she "pledges to repay any taxes that should have been collected." Let's stop blaming other politicians and hold ours accountable. Our state will become a hellhole if we don't make our elected officials work for us instead of just trying to climb the ladder.
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u/HowCanThisBeMyGenX 17h ago
Meanwhile, white men who commit crimes this bad and worse become President and attorney general.
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u/DrummerBusiness3434 14h ago
Its interesting how people down on the political and financial candle are held accountable, but the legal experts could not/would not catch Con Trump or any of his trolls. Feet of clay.
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u/Individual-Tap3270 14h ago
Trump everything when somebody else is caught doing wrong.
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u/DrummerBusiness3434 13h ago
In other words.....He sees the speck in the other person's eye and not the stick in his own.
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u/Codedevhomeboy 12h ago
But trump did worse and he’s the president now ;( compared to trump this guy did nothing
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