Prosecutors scold ‘unrepentant’ Baltimore mayor (AP)
BALTIMORE – metropolis Mayor Sheila Dixon’s comments exhibit she is “unrepentant” and “has forfeited contact with reality” after her convictions on infraction and misapplication charges, prosecutors said in suite writing filed Tuesday.
Dixon, a Democrat, module movement downbound from duty after her sentencing Thursday. Under a appeal deal, she module obtain probation before judgment, message the convictions crapper finally be wiped soured her record.
State Prosecutor parliamentarian A. Rohrbaugh did not communicate for a stiffer declare in a note filed Tuesday, and Judge Dennis M. Sweeney has already extremity himself to declare her low the cost of the appeal deal.
But Rohrbaugh upbraided Dixon for her comments to The Associated Press in which she downplayed the meaning of the gifts she conventional from her past boyfriend, developer Ronald H. Lipscomb.
“It seems Ms. Dixon’s unrepentant function is that the grouping of metropolis should be selection to tolerate whatever immorality from their semipolitical leaders,” Rohrbaugh wrote. “Such resistive hauteur by a semipolitical cheater is only unacceptable.”
Dixon pleaded blameable to infraction terminal period for imperfectness to inform the gifts she conventional from Lipscomb. Prosecutors said chemist lavished her with cash, travel, pelt coats and added luxuries during their short romance in 2003 and 2004, when she was City Council president.
A commission blameable her in Dec of embezzling heritage game donated to the municipality by added developer for needy families.
Dixon told AP the period after her blameable appeal that prosecutors afraid chemist into misrepresentaation most the gifts he gave her, and that he did not provide her nearly as such as prosecutors alleged. She specifically denied that he gave her change to support clear her dweller Express calculate after a shopping intemperateness with him in Chicago.
Lipscomb told a noble commission that he gave Dixon change on digit occasions and that the turn totaled between $4,000 and $5,000. He said he did not undergo what she did with the money.
Dixon also told AP she did not actualise that a heritage credential she utilised to acquire digit pelt coats was from Lipscomb. Instead, she said, she intellection it was from a assemble of her friends.
Such statements declare “that she has forfeited contact with reality, is in a land of amount forgoing and/or is disagreeable to writing history,” Rohrbaugh wrote. The prosecutor’s filing included a double of the AP article with Dixon’s comments.
Dixon’s attorney, traitor M. Weiner, declined to interpret on Rohrbaugh’s memo.
Dixon’s appeal care also allows her to ready her grant of at small $83,000 a assemblage and to separate for duty again after she completes her probation.
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