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An ethics complaint has been filed against Maryland US Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks

An ethics complaint has been filed against Maryland US Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks

An ethics complaint has been filed against Maryland US Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks National Center for Legal Policy.

The complaint is currently under review US Senate Select Committee on Ethics. It alleges that Alsobrooks failed to disclose certain liabilities in three of its candidate financial disclosure reports. It also mentions her $47,000 property tax bill. The complaint alleges that she still failed to amend her annual return and disclose her D.C. property tax liability.

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Additional claims include a retirement plan worth between $15,000 and $50,000 that disappeared from one statement to the next.

We now know that Alsobrooks made a $17,000 payment to the District of Columbia on her tax bill on October 10. She now has an unpaid bill of over $30,000.

Our sister station in Baltimore caught up with Alsobrooks on the weekend event.

“There is still $29,000 in back taxes. Do you still plan to pay them before the election?” asked WBFF reporter Gary Collins.

“Before the elections? Until Tuesday? You know, we paid off $17,000 of the loan I got and I’m working to pay off the rest,” Alsobrooks added.

Gilmore also spoke with Larry Hogan, Alsobrooks’ opponent in Tuesday’s election.

“You know, not paying taxes for 14 years, it seems like there’s a different set of rules for other people and a different set for her. She agreed to try to pay the taxes, but failed to do so. I think that’s kind of an example that people are going to be concerned about,” Hogan said.

Additional claims include questions about Alsobrooks’ salary as Prince George’s County executive and pension plan.

The complaint also alleges that Alsobrooks purchased her grandmother’s property in D.C. in 2003 in a deal to avoid paying approximately $4,000 in D.C. property transfer taxes.

It is alleged that she did this by asking her grandmother to transfer the property to her mother and on the same day her mother transferred the property to her. She later sold it in 2018. According to D.C. law at the time, the ethics complaint states that the transfer of real estate from a grandmother to a grandchild is subject to the estate transfer tax.

The investigation reported for the first time about the double transfer process by reporter Andrew Kerr at The Washington Free Beacon.

The complaint also cites a 7News I-Team report showing that Alsobrooks did not have the required rental license for the properties she rented out for 10 of the 15 years she claims she was the landlord.

READ MORE |DC records show that Angela Alsobrooks has not had a DC rental license for 10 years

She had an October 31st deadline to settle her tax bill. She did make the $17,000 payment on October 10.

Alsobrooks currently has an unpaid bill of over $30,000. Its new maturity date is November 30.