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Anonymous ID: 662ce8 April 2, 2019, 1:59 p.m. No.6021399 🗄️.is 🔗kun

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/baltimore-mayor-pugh-to-take-leave-of-absence-in-midst-of-healthy-holly-book-controversy/ar-BBVv7Q4?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, engulfed by a scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for her self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books, announced Monday that she will take an indefinite leave of absence because of her health.

“Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has been battling pneumonia for the past few weeks. She has been advised by her physicians that she needs to take time to recover and focus on her health,” according to a statement from Pugh’s office. “At this time, with the mayor’s health deteriorating, she feels as though she is unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor of Baltimore city. To that end, Mayor Pugh will be taking an indefinite leave of absence to recuperate from this serious illness.”

The mayor was treated for five days last week at Johns Hopkins for pneumonia.

City Solicitor Andre Davis confirmed the leave and that it will start at midnight.

this mayor was in office when house fire, which cause has yet to be determined, killed 6 children of CUMMINGS STAFFER

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Under the deal, the medical system paid Pugh $500,000 for copies of the books while she served on its board. UMMS paid $100,000 in each of five transactions in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018 to purchase 20,000 copies of her self-published books at $5 per book. Pugh was among nine members of the 30-person UMMS board that had contracts or other business deals with the medical system. Pugh and two other board members have resigned. Several others were placed on leave.

On Monday, The Sun reported that health insurer Kaiser Permanente also paid Pugh more than $100,000 to purchase copies of her books from 2015 to 2018. In September 2017, the city’s spending board, which Pugh sits on and controls, awarded Kaiser a $48 million contract to provide health insurance to city employees from 2018 through 2020, with options to renew. After The Sun reported the Kaiser purchase, State Comptroller Peter Franchot called on Pugh to resign and Gov. Larry Hogan asked the office of the state prosecutor to begin a criminal investigation of the allegations against Pugh.

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>Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, engulfed by a scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for her self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books, announced Monday that she will take an indefinite leave of absence because of her health.

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MAYOR PUGH WAS GOING TO MAKE CLOSE TO $1M FOR WRITING CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

WAS THAT HER PAYOFF FOR COVERING UP A FIRE AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE IN BALTIMORE?

Anonymous ID: 662ce8 April 2, 2019, 2:08 p.m. No.6021497 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1884

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Even as Pugh resigned her seat on the UMMS board and handed back $100,000 of the book payments, she was defiant. She issued a statement saying she was proud of the books and the message they were aimed at sharing, and she called inquiries into the UMMS deal a “witch hunt.”

But Thursday, she held a news conference at City Hall apologizing for it.

“In hindsight, this arrangement with the University of Maryland Medical System was a regrettable mistake,” she said.

At the news conference, she made no mention of other buyers of the books. She also acknowledged that 20,000 books for which UMMS paid her $100,000 in fiscal 2017 had been “delayed” and were only now being produced.

Pugh, a veteran of almost two decades in Baltimore politics, secured the mayoralty by winning the 2016 Democratic primary, taking 37 percent of the vote to defeat a dozen other hopefuls. She is paid $185,000 as mayor.