Former State’s Attorney Bernstein Reportedly Hired to Help with Del. Morhaim’s Medical Pot Ethics Probe

2/3/17

By Ethan McLeod, Baltimore Fishbowl

Gregg Bernstein

Marilyn Mosby’s predecessor in the State’s Attorney’s Office of Baltimore City has been tapped to assist with an ethics review of a Baltimore County delegate’s involvement in a medical marijuana business, according to media outlets.

The Daily Record’s Maryland government reporter, Bryan Sears, reports Gregg Bernstein, formerly the City of Baltimore’s top prosecutor and now a partner at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, was seen being ushered into a House of Delegates building in Annapolis yesterday. Sources told him Bernstein was hired as outside counsel to assist lawmakers in an ethics review of Del. Dan Morhaim’s admitted involvement in a medical marijuana business.

Stacy Goodman, a co-counsel for the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics, which is investigating Morhaim, said in an email that the committee has no comment.

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