Charles Co. GOPer sent to the principal's office

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The Chuck Co. Commissioners are none too pleased with being made to look like boobs by one of the county's only two remaining GOP officials. The board announced today that they are asking the Maryland Ethics Commission to investigate Register of Wills Susie Bowles for wringing a second pension out of the county last year:

‘‘We’ve been put in a very unusual position by the register of wills,” said commissioners’ President F. Wayne Cooper (D), reading a prepared statement after the board voted to withdraw the benefit. Cooper said Bowles’ presentations before the board in April of last year ‘‘clearly left the impression that the register of wills did not receive any benefit for her years of service.”

The commissioners had opened the hearing by playing back video clips of the appearances Bowles made before the board April 4 and 27, 2007.

‘‘As everybody is aware, I don’t have a retirement, and I would hope that you would look at this favorably for me,” Bowles said at the April 4, 2007, appearance. And again, at the April 27, 2007, appearance, she said, ‘‘As you know, I don’t have a retirement ... and I would very much like to come under the list of the county.”

Well, low and behold, Susie gets a state pension...

 

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Don't understand why she's not being charged with fraud, attempted fraud or conspiricy to commit fraud.