Kara DiPietro became operating chief of fleet management, a $96 million division of Baltimore government, despite a history of not paying business loans and bankruptcy. Earlier this month, she was indicted for fraudulently obtaining $2.8 million in PPP loans.
Baltimore City continues to employ, as operations chief of its fleet management service, a person federally charged with fleecing banks for $2.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even before Kara A. DiPietro was indicted on October 8 by a Baltimore federal grand jury on six bank fraud counts, the 49-year-old former businesswoman was the subject of multiple contested loans, tax judgments and bitter bankruptcy battles involving companies she had operated…