MARYLAND NEWS

The IG Advisory Board approves the hiring of outside legal counsel. Cumming reveals her fight with the Scott administration centers on MONSE. UPDATE: Mayor’s office says legal action by OIG in her official capacity is “not feasible.” Source: Baltimore Brew

The City Inspector General (IG)advisory board voted Tuesday evening to approve a resolution allowing the oversight office to enforce a subpoena for city financial records in court. The IG also called on residents to urge state lawmakers to carve out exceptions in the Maryland Public Information Act for inspectors general. Source: Baltimore Sun 

The administration’s latest assault on the city’s corruption watchdog doesn’t hold up to legal scrutiny and raises a harsh question: what are they hiding? Source: Baltimore Brew

The Maryland Attorney General's Office weighed in with an opinion stating that information that would be redacted from the public would also be redacted from city agencies as well. Source: Source: WBAL TV Baltimore via MSN.com    and  the opinion at https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/hayes-02-03-26-698657fcaa34b.pdf

Without access to IT system data and financial records, the Office of the Inspector General cannot effectively identify and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in city government, the board says. [One of the members is a CFE.] Source: BaltimoreBrew and https://www.baltimorecity.gov/inspector-general/position-paper-access-to-records

The Maryland Secretary of State, responsible for regulating charities, many of which receive taxpayer funds, sent almost 9,000 notices for delinquent or incomplete registrations in fiscal 2025. Two of the recipients are set to receive millions of dollars from Baltimore City’s opioid restitution fund; another is an organization in which the wife of the Baltimore Mayor is listed as an executive. Source: BaltimoreSun.com

Source:TheBanner.com

Nearly two dozen people across the state have transferred funds, cryptocurrency and gold bars to impostors, said Montgomery County officials and FBI agents.

At a news conference Monday alongside Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy and FBI Baltimore Field Office Special Agent Jeremy Capello, the victims shared their stories. Their last names are not being used to protect their identities.

Through coordinated investigative efforts, law enforcement traced the scams reported by victims in Montgomery County, Maryland, to extensive international scam call center operations in India that had been targeting Americans since 2022. Those scam call centers were dismantled by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in December 2025 leading to CBI arresting six Indian nationals who led the illegal criminal syndicates. Source: TheBanner.com, WTOP.com, and FBI.gov 

The Baltimore Mayor and his law department are making bogus claims to deny the Inspector General access to records needed for her watchdog role. Source BaltimoreBrew.com

Spotlight on Maryland obtained more than 100 documents from the Maryland Department of Health’s Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ) through an open records request…In one internal meeting summary, officials warned that the unlicensed assisted living industry was “getting worse” and referred to some operators as “fraudsters.” Source: foxbaltimore.com/spotlight-on-maryland