Courtroom revelations yesterday, as former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa pleaded guilty to tax evasion, raised an uncomfortable question for Mayor Catherine Pugh today:
How could she have embraced him last January as her choice to led the BPD given a 2015 letter from the Internal Revenue Service alerting his employer, the Baltimore Police Department, to problems with his withholding tax allowances?
That so-called “lock-in letter,” Pugh said at her weekly press availability, was “not in the files that we saw – absolutely not in the files that we saw.”
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