Judge upholds 2 ethics violations against Nick Mosby, but rules council president didn’t take money from controlled donors

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge upheld two out of three findings in a city administrative ruling that City Council President Nick Mosby violated Baltimore’s ethics code for elected officials, throwing out the most notable finding that the Democrat himself took money from controlled donors. At a virtual hearing Monday afternoon, Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill agreed with the Baltimore City Board of Ethics that the Democrat solicited donations from controlled donors — that is, people who are seeking to do business with the city — to a legal