Where Are All The Books?

[GURPS]

We’re now well into the second week of bookgate in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. (If you missed the details of the story thus far you can browse our previous coverage of it here.) The passage of time and various requests for information from Mayor Catherine Pugh, the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and the Baltimore City School District have not made this tale smell any better. All the members of the UMMS Board of Directors who had these “self-dealing” arrangements have now either resigned or been placed on leave.

But one question specific to Mayor Pugh’s situation remains unanswered. If she supposedly “sold” 100,000 copies of her self-published children’s book to UMMS to be distributed around hospitals and schools in the city, where are they all? The last order for 20,000 books may or may not have been canceled, but that still leaves a lot of books to account for. The Baltimore Sun has been digging for answersand as of yet, nobody seems to know. Some are beginning to wonder if the full quantity of books ever existed at all.

Tens of thousands of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” children’s books have not been accounted for by the institution that paid for them or the mayor, even as public pressure builds amid accusations of “self-dealing” at the University of Maryland Medical System.

From 2011 through 2018, the University of Maryland Medical System had a deal to spend $500,000 for 100,000 copies of Pugh’s self-published book series. The system placed five orders of 20,000 books at $5 each while Pugh sat on the hospital’s board of directors…

That would mean 80,000 should have been printed and distributed.

Baltimore bookgate continues: Where are all the books?

Hard to follow the money when there are no receipts

hotair.com

 

[vraiblonde]

We need to invade Baltimore, kill its leaders, and convert it to Christianity. Clearly Baltimorons are too stupid to self-govern and at some point the rest of Maryland needs to step in.

 

[Kyle]

We need to invade Baltimore, kill its leaders, and convert it to Christianity. Clearly Baltimorons are too stupid to self-govern and at some point the rest of Maryland needs to step in.

You'll have to add Annapolis.

 

[Hijinx]

Just remember where Pelosi came from, and who her daddy was.

 

[glhs837]

This got even better at the last presser

1. She supposed to have pneumonia, and was doing this against her doctors wishes, crank up the sympathy.
2. She actually had a table with a black cloth behind her. Aides whisked off the cover to reveal BOOK!!!!! And recepits from a bookmaker on Ontario to prove she did order 60K books in three orders of 20K eack. Each set of 20K books cost her 13K. UMMS paid her 100K for each set of 20K.
3. Nobody can say where the majority are.
4. She actually had the friken gall to show off merch and shill that she's expanding the Healthy Holly line to clothing and other kid accessories.....