MARYLAND NEWS

A Bowie man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. According to the plea agreement, he conspired with unknown individuals, including John Doe, a foreign national living in Shenyang, China, to defraud U.S. companies into hiring the Bowie man as a remote software developer. After securing these jobs through materially false statements about his education, training, and experience, He allowed Doe and others to use his computer access credentials to perform the remote software development work and receive payment for that work. Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

Defendant Paid $20,000 Bribe in Order to Receive State Contracts. Source: Maryland Attorney General

A 38-year old Fallston, Maryland woman pled guilty in federal court to knowingly and willfully making false statements to financial institutions in connection with real-estate settlements. Source: US Attorney District of Maryland

A Baltimore attorney was sentenced to six months of house arrest and three years of probation for attempting to extort the University of Maryland Medical System, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. Source: CBS News

Speaking at a hearing prior to the Maryland Senate voting on the lottery position, he dismissed a history of financial issues, including a $45,000 federal tax lien, delinquent student loans and unreported campaign contributions. “There’s nothing that I’ve done in the past” that amounts to “fraud, waste, abuse or corruption in my personal life or as a member of this body or the (Baltimore) City Council.” Source: BaltimoreBrew.com

Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard III announced today a former legislative aide in the Maryland State Senate has pleaded guilty to felony theft scheme, for stealing funds allocated for legislative scholarships. According to a Statement of Facts, the former aide worked for a Maryland State Senator when she allocated scholarship funds to herself without that Senator’s authorization. She continued to access the Senator’s email address, “secretly and without permission” after she no longer worked in the Senator’s Office to ensure she continued to receive the scholarship funds. Source: Maryland State Prosecutor

A former president of a union representing National Institutes of Health employees has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on wire fraud and money laundering charges. The indictment handed down last week accuses , a former NIH contract analyst who was president of an American Federation of Government Employees chapter, of defrauding the union local of hundreds of thousands of dollars through an “unauthorized” consulting agreement. Source: Baltimore Sun via MSN.com

The Attorney General announced the sentencing of a 47-year old Randallstown woman and a 49-year old Baltimore woman relating to the financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult while the victim lived at an assisted living facility in Baltimore City. The 47 year old woman owned the facility and the Baltimore woman was a caretaker there.

From August 2022 to May 2023, the two women used the bank account of a vulnerable adult who lived at their assisted living facility as if it were their own. When the vulnerable adult confronted them, the two defendants said the victim was delusional and aggressive. This allegation led to the victim being hospitalized and later relocated to a different facility. The two defendants were sentenced in March 2025. Source: Maryland Attorney General

Google is suing a Maryland man and others for allegedly abusing the tech company's services to create fake online listings for phony businesses, bolstering said businesses with sham views from nonexistent people and selling the data of consumers who were lured in by the listings to third parties. Source: USA TODAY and the complaint obtained by USA TODAY.

The Attorney General announced that the Grand Jury for Baltimore County has handed down a third indictment charging Michaela 68-year old Parkville, Maryland,  man with theft of property valued at $100,000 or more. This is the third time since September 2024 that the man has been indicted in connection with his former business as an insurance agent and purported financial advisor. Source Maryland AG