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? [OP-ED]
Last week I described the misguided attempt by the administration of Mayor Brandon Scott to deny the city Office of Inspector General (OIG) access to records and information subject to the attorney-client privilege.
That effort is one of several fronts in the war being waged by the mayor and his administration on Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, a war intended to destroy the effectiveness of her office by cutting off its access to the information it needs to investigate and identify government fraud, waste and abuse…