Nathaniel T. Oaks
Disgraced ex-legislator Nathaniel T. Oaks is scheduled to enter the minimum-security satellite camp at the Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution Monday to begin serving a 3½ -year sentence on political corruption charges.
It is an ignoble finish to the Democrat’s decades-long career representing West Baltimore’s 41st District, and some of Maryland’s poorest residents, in the General Assembly.
Yet even as Oaks goes off to prison, the public disclosures in the last six months – many the result of the federal government’s prosecution of a scheme in which he took $15,300 in bribes from an undercover FBI source – offer only a small window into the financial dealings of the former lawmaker.
