frolicndetour t1_j66fj23 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 1:12 AM

Reply to comment by FriedScrapple in ELI5: What's the deal with Marilyn Mosby? by baltinerdist

I think there was arrogance, too. Like they are above petty laws and they can do what they want without consequences. It's common with corruption. Pugh and Dixon (and for example Trump on a national level) had the same attitude, like they did what they wanted and how dare you question my actions.

FriedScrapple t1_j66ixo4 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 1:38 AM

Which is so silly, especially with a Republican governor looking for any excuse to point to Baltimore city as too corrupt to be deserving of any help. Remember the Ehrlich days when Rod Rosenstein busted Ed Norris’s panty fund? Good times.

DemonDeke t1_j69s03v wrote on January 28, 2023 at 7:51 PM

Are you saying the old Republican gov was looking for a way to take down Ed Norris?

FriedScrapple t1_j69zp8s wrote on January 28, 2023 at 8:45 PM

Who knows, but that fund Ed had been using had been dipped into by other police chiefs for miscellaneous purchases pre-Ed for a while. One option might’ve been “hey, why did you buy panties with that fund? Even if other guys did it it’s not for that, quit it and pay it back.” Another is to call the FBI. Another is to not even probe smaller expenses in the first place. I’m not saying Ed was wrong, and maybe he was given the option to pay it back and said no, I don’t know. Ed thinks it was political, but of course consider the source.

Difficult-Buddy1205 t1_j67kqgx wrote on January 28, 2023 at 7:43 AM

Can you expand the Ed Norris panty fund thing. I only know him as a radio personality and callers will call in and ask him to save Baltimore and I don’t get it. He’s a former cop?

TerranceBaggz t1_j68dhip wrote on January 28, 2023 at 1:50 PM

He was the former chief of police. He was sent to prison IIRC. Now he goes around claiming it was a witch hunt. He and his bs is why I don’t listen to 105.7 anymore.

FriedScrapple t1_j68h0yy wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:21 PM

Former chief of police who was spending a city police fund on underthings for his mistress at Victoria’s Secret. Was busted by the FBI prosecuted by a young Rod J Rosenstein (who went on to Trump WH fame, and to become a traitor to this country. But back then he prosecuted more corrupt cops than anyone before or since).