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Currie slipped in Shoppers' legislation late, according to testimony
Federal prosecutors suggested through witness testimony Thursday that state Sen. Ulysses Currie secured legislation for Shoppers Food & Pharmacy by slipping it in at the last minute during the 2005 General Assembly session, when it was less likely to...Tags: Witnesses, Annapolis, Lawyers, Prince George's County, FBI
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Federal jury acquits Md. state Sen. Currie
Associated PressA federal jury Tuesday acquitted Maryland state Sen. Ulysses Currie in an alleged influence-peddling case, clearing the prominent lawmaker of all charges for accepting more than $245,000 in payments from a grocery store chain while he chaired a powerful...Tags: Annapolis, Lawyers, FBI, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Legally not guilty, but what about politically?
State Sen. Ulysses Currie may have walked out of Baltimore's federal courthouse Tuesday a free man, but it was hardly the clean sweep that the jurors' verdict of not guilty on all counts might indicate. Jurors said after emerging from the courthouse that...Tags: Annapolis, Lawyers, Economy, Business and Finance, Blackmail and Extortion, Crimes
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Currie not guilty of bribery, conspiracy in Shoppers case
After a six-week trial and three days of deliberation, a Maryland jury acquitted Sen. Ulysses S. Currie and two grocery chain executives Tuesday of federal extortion and bribery charges, ending years of criminal suspicion surrounding the Prince George's...Tags: Annapolis, FBI, Defendants, Religion and Belief, Court Preliminary
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Senate must remove Currie from office
What does it take to get a bribery conviction in Maryland? State Sen. Ulysses Currie, who took a quarter-million dollars from a grocery store chain to advocate on its behalf, and who told no one about the arrangement, was just found not guilty on...Tags: Public Officials, Annapolis, Government, Brian E Frosh, Religion and Belief
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Common Cause calls for Currie censure
A leading government watchdog organization has called on the Maryland Senate to censure state Sen. Ulysses Currie, the once-powerful budget committee chairman who was acquitted of political corruption charges this week.
Susan Wichmann, executive director...Tags: Public Officials, Annapolis, Government, Somerville, Groceries
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Lt. Gov. Brown calls Currie 'a man of strong integrity'
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown testified Monday morning that state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie, who is charged in U.S. District Court with taking bribes from a grocery chain, has been a mentor to him both professionally and personally. "Senator Currie has a...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Lawyers, Government, Elections, Ethics
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Flunking Government Ethics 101
Politicians are a lot like middle school students. The moment you think they are mature and thoughtful enough to do the responsible thing, they are bound to disappoint. As any experienced parent or president of the United States will tell you, better to...Tags: Labor Legislation, Public Officials, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Lawyers, Baltimore County
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Currie: Dumb and corrupt
In response to your editorial about state Sen. Ulysses Currie's bribery trial ("Too dumb to be corrupt?" Oct. 19), I say: Right on! The Maryland Senate is both bumbling and corrupt, and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller is the chief corrupter.... -
In Holton case, court sets an impossible standard on bribery
When one of Charles Dickens' characters said, "The law is an ass," he could easily have been referring to the recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision that makes it practically impossible for the state to prosecute legislators for taking bribes —...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Issues, Lawyers, University of Baltimore, Corporate Crime
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Too dumb to be corrupt?
Just when it seemed that the trial of state Sen. Ulysses Currie couldn't possibly lower the public opinion of the General Assembly any further, a former state delegate and highly respected member of Maryland's legal and political firmament has now...Tags: Labor Legislation, Annapolis, Ethics, Religion and Belief, Career and Workplace
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We didn't need the Currie trial to learn which legislators are dumb
It does not take an Einstein to figure out who is dumb or dumber in the state legislature ("Too dumb to be corrupt?" Oct. 19). All one has to do is track delegates and senators during the 90-day session and attend the sessions as the months go by. I would...
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