No Miller
We'd hoped to get some reaction from Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller on a story in today's Baltimore Sun about Sen. Currie's (D-Prince George's) decision to use campaign funds to pay legal fees. (Currie's payment to lawfirm questioned.)
Maryland's AG has opined that elected officials can only use campaign funds to pay legal bills connected with investigations relating to their campaign. The federal probe into Currie appears to center on his failure to promptly disclose consulting fees he received from Shopper's Food Warehouse while he was pushing legislation to help the company.
But Miller said in the Sun story that there's a different, newer letter from the AG's office which permits Currie to use $40K of his campaign money for defense lawyers. But after session today, Miller left the floor without doing his usual press gaggle. We'll ask on Monday.
*UPDATE:
We caught up with Miller after session Monday night and asked again if he would release the newer letter from the AG's office.
This is what he said:
"What I have is a letter. You know I have a letter. And it is a confidential letter. It is protected by attorney client privilege.
"I shouldn’t have commented as much as I did before. In fact I was reprimanded by the assistant attorney general and other attorneys for commenting on a case that was in a play so I shouldn’t have commented at all."
Comments
If the powers that be allow this Currie to remain as chair of his committee, ALL are guilty of complicity in Currie's corruption.
HE MUST BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY from his chair position! !
THIS is why we need a RECALL AMENDMENT in out Constitution.
Because of the REST of the GA who refuse to do anything about open blatant corruption.
Posted by: Voters Ignoraance | February 12, 2010 2:54 PM
Wow, that's some aggressive reporting. How about waiting for him outside the statehouse?
Posted by: Jim | February 15, 2010 11:35 AM
If Miller is in possession of a document he refuses to release to the public due to "attorney client privilege", unless he is the attorney or the client, what the hell is he doing with it?
Posted by: Voters Ignoraance | February 16, 2010 8:41 AM