The Scott administration’s new restrictions on OIG access to documents “would have limited this investigation,” Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming points out
If you want to understand why Mayor Brandon Scott is intent on limiting access to city records by Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, look no further.
In a report issued today, the city’s waste and fraud watchdog found that the mayor’s office has been spending lavishly on itself, providing cruise ship-like comforts and perks for top staff, including crab feasts, pizza, banana bread pudding, bottomless freshly popped popcorn and “a fresh fruit tray available to everyone in the mayor’s suite daily” – all at taxpayer expense…