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    Ex-Baltimore Mayor To Be Sentenced In 'Healthy Holly' Children's Book Scheme

    Former Mayor Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty to federal fraud, as well as tax and conspiracy charges last year involving sales of her self-published children's books.
    by Brakkton Booker Feb 27, 2020 2 minutes

    Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh will be sentenced Thursday, three months after she pleaded guilty to federal fraud, tax and conspiracy charges over a scheme involving sales of her self-published Healthy Holly children's books.

    Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of roughly five years in prison. Pugh's lawyers asked the judge for a more lenient prison sentence of one

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