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Baltimore awards contract to law firm with connections to mayor

A law firm that employs Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley’s campaign treasurer has received $1.2 million in city legal contracts since 2000. A spokesman for the firm, Brown & Sheehan, says O’Malley supporter Martin Cadogan

A law firm that employs Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley’s campaign treasurer has received $1.2 million in city legal contracts since 2000. A spokesman for the firm, Brown & Sheehan, says O’Malley supporter Martin Cadogan did not work on the contracts or profit financially from them, according to the Baltimore Sun. The city’s five-member Board of Estimates, on which O’Malley sits and to which he appoints two other voting positions, awarded the contracts.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.lawyers08sep08,0,4192368.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

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on Apr. 27, 2012
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