{"id":2364390,"date":"2024-11-05T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angela-alsobrooks-faces-ethics-complaint-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:48:27","slug":"angela-alsobrooks-faces-ethics-complaint-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angela-alsobrooks-faces-ethics-complaint-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Alsobrooks faces ethics complaint- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fangela-alsobrooks-faces-ethics-complaint-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2364390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Angela Alsobrooks, a \u200bDemocratic candidate for Maryland&#8217;s Senate, is facing an ethics complaint from a \u200dconservative watchdog \u200dgroup, the National Legal\u2064 and Policy Center. The\u2064 complaint alleges that Alsobrooks submitted false financial disclosures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-exposed-inflated-covid-deaths-by-1600-throughout-the-election-violated-multiple-federal-laws-peer-reviewed-study-findsstate-local-governments-must-act\/\" title=\"CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, \u201cViolated Multiple Federal Laws\u201d Peer-Reviewed Study Finds\u2026State, Local Governments Must Act\">violating federal law<\/a>. Specifically, it \u200bclaims \u200bthat \u2063she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-accused-of-backdating-penalty-approvals-in-crackdown-on-conservation-easement-tax-breaks\/\" title=\"IRS accused of backdating penalty approvals in crackdown on tax breaks for conservation easements.\">improperly claimed tax breaks<\/a> on her former \u200cproperty in Washington, \u2063D.C., including a credit for senior citizens that she \u2063was not eligible for. This resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-got-played-by-democrats-on-tax-bill-gop-senator-claims-devil-is-in-the-details\/\" title=\"GOP senator claims House Republicans were outmaneuvered by Democrats on the tax bill, emphasizing the importance of scrutinizing the details\">significant tax bill<\/a>, part of which she \u200cpaid just before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The group is urging the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate, highlighting that Alsobrooks \u2064neglected to disclose a tax liability exceeding $10,000, which is required to be reported by candidates. The watchdog&#8217;s counsel criticized her reporting as careless, especially given her background as a former prosecutor.\u2062 As accusations surface amid \u200dthe ongoing 2024 election, Alsobrooks, who is competing against Republican \u2064Larry Hogan, has been under\u2064 scrutiny \u200bfor potential violations that could lead to civil or criminal penalties. Despite earning a substantial salary as the county executive of\u200c Prince George&#8217;s County, she has been criticized for not\u2064 paying her\u2064 taxes on time.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Angela Alsobrooks faces ethics complaint over unpaid property taxes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1873135\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Maryland<\/a> Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, is being accused by a conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/watchdog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">watchdog<\/a> group in an ethics complaint of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">submitting false financial disclosures<\/a> in apparent violation of federal law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The ethics complaint, filed on Monday by the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center, zeroes in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3162381\/alsobrooks-improper-tax-breaks-dc-maryland-properties-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">how Alsobrooks improperly<\/a> claimed tax breaks that she did not qualify for, including one intended for senior citizens, on her former property in Washington, D.C. The revelation from September prompted Alsobrooks to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/10\/07\/angela-alsobrooks-receives-final-dc-property-tax-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">hit<\/a> with a $47,000 tax bill, a portion of which she paid just ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the National Legal and Policy Center is calling on the Senate Ethics Committee to launch an investigation, according to a copy of the complaint filed Monday. That&rsquo;s because Alsobrooks, the watchdog told the committee, failed to disclose her tax liability on reports filed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Congress<\/a>. Liabilities totaling more than $10,000 are required to be reported by candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All these omissions and irregularities are sloppy reporting at best for a former prosecutor who should know better or are substantive violations which she has yet to correct in an amended report, particularly the failure to report her liability to the D.C. tax authorities,&rdquo; Paul Kamenar, counsel to the watchdog group, wrote in the complaint. <\/p>\n<p>News of the watchdog&rsquo;s complaint comes as voters in Maryland and across the country cast their votes in the 2024 elections. Alsobrooks is running for Maryland&rsquo;s open Senate seat against Republican former Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/larry-hogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Larry Hogan<\/a>. She earns over $220,000 per year as county executive of Maryland&rsquo;s Prince George&rsquo;s County &mdash; though she missed the Oct. 31 deadline to pay her $47,000 tax bill in full.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, the 2024 Republican Senate nominee, and Angela Alsobrooks, the county executive of Prince George&rsquo;s County, the 2024 Democratic Maryland Senate nominee. (AP Photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, we paid $17,000,&rdquo; Alsobrooks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realgarycollins\/status\/1852762238932640141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> a reporter last week. &ldquo;We paid the amount of the credit that I received, and I&rsquo;m working to pay off the interest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the complaint, Kamenar said that candidates who knowingly and willfully report false information on their disclosures may be subject to civil penalties of up to $50,000 and criminal penalties. <\/p>\n<p>The counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, a group that often files complaints with Congress, the Federal Election Commission, and the IRS against nonprofit groups, noted that Alsobrooks has filed three disclosure combined reports in September and August.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A comparison of all three reports shows a number of omissions and irregularities,&rdquo; the complaint read. &ldquo;For example, her original filing lists five assets in Part 3. The last asset listed was a Prince George&rsquo;s County Defined Benefit Pension Plan that was valued between $15,001 and $50,000.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;However, that asset was missing in her Annual Report filed on August 13, 2024, as well as on her Amended Report of August 29, 2024. What happened to it? If she liquidated that retirement account as it appeared that she did, that is a reportable transaction, according to the Financial Disclosure Instructions,&rdquo; the complaint read. <\/p>\n<p>The watchdog also argued Alsobrooks failed to disclose her affiliation with the University of Maryland&rsquo;s law school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Regarding the list of her outside Positions in Part 8, she listed on her Amended Report that from Jan. 2021 to the present, she was an Officer at the University of Maryland Law School Board of Visitors which was missing from her report just two weeks earlier but which appeared in her original September 2023 report,&rdquo; according to the complaint. <\/p>\n<p>The Alsobrooks campaign did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the Senate Ethics Committee. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3042186\/senate-democrat-angela-alsobrooks-campaign-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">also faced an FEC complaint<\/a> in June from the conservative Americans for Public Trust watchdog, which claimed Alsobrooks used state campaign funds to boost her federal campaign. The Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3046096\/angela-alsobrooks-denies-campaign-finance-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">called<\/a> the allegations &ldquo;bogus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hogan said this week that the Senate race will be the &ldquo;biggest surprise upset&rdquo; in the country come Election Day, although Alsobrooks has led him in polling <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/senate\/2024\/maryland\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">substantially<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1873135\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1873135\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Alsobrooks faces ethics complaint over unpaid taxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2364391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Angela-Alsobrooks-Senate-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38764,44392,4837,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2364390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-angela-alsobrooks","tag-ethics-complaint","tag-maryland","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Angela-Alsobrooks-Senate-2024-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364394,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364390\/revisions\/2364394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}