Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . Mayor Sheila Dixon of Baltimore was
indicted Friday, accused of stealing gift cards donated to the city for
needy families and failing to report trips, fur coats and other
luxuries paid for by a local developer who was her former boyfriend.
The indictment, which follows a nearly three-year state
investigation, charges that from 2003, when she was City Council
president, until shortly after she became the first woman to be elected
mayor of Baltimore, in |