MARYLAND NEWS

Source: Capital Gazette

Isabel Mercedes Cumming is elected to unpaid position at the Association of Inspectors General to oversee independence and integrity issues. Source: Baltimore Brew

An indictment alleges a Florida man, claiming to be a doctor, made promises to women in several states, including Maryland, in order to induce them to send him money and buy him jewelry and watches is alleged to have fraudulently obtained more than $750,000 in funds and property as a result of his scheme.Source: US Attorney, Norther District of Florida

Fraudulently Replicated the Website of a Biotech Company That Has an Authorized COVID-19 Vaccine to Perpetrate the Scheme. Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

They preyed on hundreds of elderly victims around the world. Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

Defendant Alleged to Have Arranged Approximately 60 Fraudulent. Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

Defendant Allegedly Misused Department of Veterans Affairs Funds intended for Vehicle Adaptation to Purchase Luxury BMW 645ci Luxury Sports Coupe. Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

What’s murky: why the Scott administration is rushing to hold a questionable closed-door review of Baltimore’s corruption watchdog. [OP-ED]. Source: Baltimore Brew

The auditor, Shad White, said in the statement that his office previously had determined that John Davis, the former executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, authorized payments of more than $77 million in federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds to two nonprofits that either misspent or improperly disbursed portions of that money. An independent accounting firm in Maryland then completed a second audit to determine who received the money from the nonprofits Source: Washington Post and Mississippi State Auditor News Release of Oct. 12, 2021, and Mississippi Department of Human Resources Report, Sept. 29, 2021,