Audrey Askew has resigned as Baltimore city auditor eight months after she was named to the position.

Asked why she left, Askew said in a brief phone interview today, “Baltimore will never know why, but they know why,” declining to say who “they” referred to.

“But I’ll tell you this,” she continued. “I am a person of integrity, and I am honest. Anything that alters that, I don’t do.”

Askew reported to City Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, who said she was surprised by Askew’s remarks.

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