ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Baltimore’s disgraced former mayor Catherine Pugh, who was embroiled in a scandal involving her “Healthy Holly" children's books, is expected to plead guilty to perjury Friday, the state prosecutor said.
A plea hearing on the state misdemeanor charge is scheduled Friday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. Pugh already has been sentenced to three years in federal prison over the self-dealing scandal, which involved children’s books touting exercise and nutrition that netted the now-70-year-old Democrat hundreds of thousands of dollars.
She had pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges last year and is scheduled to report to federal prison later this month.The state perjury charge relates to Pugh’s.