Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh will serve her time in an Alabama women’s prison, according to court records.
Pugh, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in the Healthy Holly children’s book scandal, is asking for a delay so that she can “resolve” her state perjury charge as the coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of courts.
She was sentenced on February 27 to three years in prison. Pugh must turn herself in by April 27; she was granted a delay her incarceration on March 2 after she asked a judge if she could stay in her home with her niece until the semester ended.
According to the motion, she’s assigned to serve her sentence at a medium-security prison, Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville.
She’s now asking for another delay because she’s been “adversely affected” by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her perjury court date was moved to May 14.
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