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| State worker charged with taking bribes |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 03/07/2005 |
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A former Maryland Division of Correction employee was charged last Tuesday with accepting bribes from a company accused of selling cleaning products to government agencies at exorbitant prices -- the first in what is expected to be a series of corruption cases involving misuse of state credit cards. The state Attorney General's Office announced that it filed a criminal information against Vivian McLean Odom, 45, in Baltimore Circuit Court. Odom is charged with receiving fishing gear and other gifts worth more than $300 from Stone Cold Chemicals, a company whose owners have been convicted in its home states of Georgia and Florida on multiple public corruption counts, in late 2002 and early 2003. The documents charge Odom, a former service supervisor at the Baltimore Pre-Release Unit, of letting those gifts influence her performance of her duties in ordering products from the janitorial and maintenance supply company. If convicted, she could be sentenced to two to 12 years and fined up to $5,000. Odom could not be reached to comment; a call to her lawyer was not returned. |
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