Baltimore Ex-Official Guilty of Misconduct
The city’s former comptroller, still hospitalized after an apparent suicide attempt, was convicted of misconduct in office for voting to award a $1-million city lease for a building she and her husband owned.
Jacqueline McLean should have abstained from the vote by the three-member Board of Estimate, Circuit Judge Donald Gilmore ruled in convicting her Wednesday. State law does not specify a penalty for misconduct, which is a common-law offense.
McLean pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to a separate charge of stealing $25,189 in city funds by writing checks to a fictitious employee.
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