Isabel Mercedes Cumming
Isabel Mercedes Cumming has been selected as Baltimore’s next Inspector General, a long-vacant position charged with pursuing complaints of waste and fraud in city government, multiple sources tell The Brew.
Mayor Catherine Pugh has been waiting until the start of next year to make the announcement, which comes after former IG, Robert Pearre, told The Brew that his probe of a top city official was stymied by political interference from Pugh’s predecessor.
The IG position has been unfilled since September 2016 when Pearre resigned, ostensibly for personal and family reasons. He now says he was forced out by Kimberly Morton, then deputy for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and now Pugh’s chief of staff.
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