AFRO Staff Writer
A senior aide to Mayor Brandon M. Scott sent a letter to the Baltimore City Ethics Board and the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Advisory Board on April 21, calling for a review of Inspector General Isabel Cumming’s online conduct. In the letter, Chief of Staff John David Merrill denounced an April 20 Facebook post from the inspector general’s account that shared a YouTube video with an AI-generated thumbnail of Scott.
The image portrayed the mayor smoking a cigar, holding a seemingly alcoholic drink and clutching luxury shopping bags. It also depicted a notice of the city’s bank account being overdrawn…