Mayor Defends Deal With Medical System She Helps Govern

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s mayor is defending a deal to sell her self-published books for $100,000 to the University of Maryland Medical System, on whose board of directors she sits.
Board positions are unpaid, but The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that around a third of the board receives compensation through the hospital network’s contracts with their businesses. The Maryland Senate’s Finance Committee is considering a bill to bar the practice.
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