While Baltimore’s former mayor languishes in prison, the two health providers who donated funds for the “Healthy Holly” books that were at the center of Catherine Pugh’s criminal conviction picked up lucrative new contracts yesterday.

The Board of Estimates approved $153 million to CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and $17 million to Kaiser Permanente to administer HMO and PPO insurance plans for current and retired city employees through December 2022.

The time frame for the new contracts roughly corresponds to the three-year sentence given to the ex-mayor, who now resides in a medium-security, all-female federal prison at Aliceville, Alabama.

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