BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors, the city’s Board of Ethics said in a ruling Thursday that ordered Mosby to stop accepting money from the fund.
The fund, established for the legal defense of him and his wife, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, received a $100 donation from the executive director of a nonprofit organization that was awarded a multi-thousand-dollar grant in March.
A $5,000 donation, the largest individual contribution to the fund, was received in August from the “resident agent” for a contractor that is a city-certified minority- or woman-owned business. The business was a subcontractor on a deal considered by the city’s spending board in 2020, according to the Board of Ethics.
