BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby should comply with an ethics board order to return money collected by a legal defense fund established to benefit him and his wife, cease fundraising activities to the fund and produce a list of donors, a group of City Council members said in a letter sent to Mosby Saturday.
The letter, signed by six of the city’s 15 council members — Kristerfer Burnett, Zeke Cohen, Ryan Dorsey, Phylicia Porter, Odette Ramos and James Torrence — echoes the demands of an order issued Thursday by the Baltimore Board of Ethics following a more than eight-month investigation into the legal defense fund.
The ethics board ruled Mosby violated city ethics law by indirectly accepting money from “controlled donors” to the fund, which was established to benefit him and his wife, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. The council president also violated the ethics code by indirectly soliciting donations to the fund, ethics board members said.
