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		<title>Cecil County Finance Chief Rakes in Annapolis Political Consulting $ as Taxpayers Pay Six-Figure Salary; Council Pleads for Budget Numbers, Gets Limited Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT James Appel, the Cecil County Director of Finance who is paid more than $124,000 a year by local taxpayers, is also operating an Annapolis political campaign finances consulting business, earning at least $42,000 in 2021. At the same time, he has been working in Elkton just four days a week even as County Council members pleaded for many months for information on county expenditures and uses of millions in state and federal aid for COVID and economic relief. Council concerns and questions about fiscal transparency have grown especially since the resignation of Rebecca Anderson, the longtime deputy finance director and budget manager, about two months ago. She took a fiscal position with the County’s public schools, which operate independently from the county executive’s administration. Anderson was much admired by Council members for her diligence and straight-forward responses to Councilors’ questions. Appel, a longtime state Republican political operative in Annapolis where he continues to live, was hired by County Executive Danielle Hornberger (R), along with another Annapolis political operative, Lawrence Scott, who was hired as County Attorney despite the fact that he had never appeared in any state court or even entered a written “appearance” on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Sheriff Joins ICE Program to Turn Over Illegals, Won&#8217;t House Detainees at Jail; Sheriff Faces Guard Shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 22:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report Cecil County Sheriff Scott Adams has signed an agreement with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to co-operate with ICE to identify and turn over Detention Center inmates who are being sought as illegal immigrants. But the county is not participating in a separate federal program that would rent out space at the county jail to hold people awaiting court decisions on immigrant status cases. In response to questions from CECIL TIMES, Adams acknowledged his agency’s new pact for participation with ICE and emphasized that his deputies would not be stopping drivers to inquire about citizenship status or actively seeking out people who might be in the US illegally. “This is just a matter of running background checks on the ICE computer system for people who have already been convicted on local charges,” Adams said in an interview with CECIL TIMES. Inmates would serve their court-ordered jail time after conviction in local courts, he said, and then turned over to ICE if they had outstanding warrants in immigration cases. “We do background checks on incoming inmates all the time,” Adams said. It is routine to check for outstanding warrants on state or local charges [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie L. Taylor Indicted for Theft, Perjury at Cecil County GOP Committee; State Prosecutor Charges Up to 25 Years in Jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrie L. Taylor, the former treasurer of the Cecil County Republican Central Committee and a protégé of the old ‘Smipkin” GOP political machine, has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of theft, embezzlement and perjury involving the elected party committee’s finances. If convicted, she could face up to 25 years in jail and a $10,000 fine. The case was brought by the Office of the State Prosecutor, which under Maryland law is empowered to investigate and prosecute violations of state elections laws as well as political corruption cases. The prosecutor’s office is located in Towson, and often uses grand juries in Baltimore County to present its cases, but election law matters are governed by the state Board of Elections in Annapolis, in Anne Arundel County. The indictments against Taylor, 35, who is listed as residing in the Patriot’s Glen community in Elkton, were returned 3/13/15 by an Anne Arundel County grand jury and disclosed Monday by State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt. “Maintaining the integrity of Maryland’s criminal and election laws has always been and shall remain of the utmost importance to this office. Committee treasurers must recognize that misuse of campaign funds will not be tolerated,” Davitt [&#8230;]]]></description>
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