Blue City Office Sues Its Own Mayor For Records On Fraud, Waste

Baltimore, Maryland’s watchdog agency is suing Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott for allegedly withholding records on potential abuse of public funds.

Scott is hampering officials’ “ability to adequately investigate complaints of fraud, financial waste, and abuse in City government,” Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Cumming’s office claimed Tuesday in local court. The lawsuit follows Scott continually barring Cumming from accessing payroll information on the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE), which Scott created in 2020 to reduce gun violence through community organizing, according to multiplereports.

At the state level, excessive overtime and other missteps among government employees cost Maryland taxpayers millions of dollars, a December report by the Office of Personnel Services and Benefits found.

“As we have noted from the beginning, the Mayor remains committed to transparency and to an that is both effective and complies with the law,” Scott’s office told the Daily Caller News Foundation