A D.C.-based government watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint with the Maryland State Ethics Commission against Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.
The complaint, by Public Citizen, a nonprofit watchdog organization created in 1971 by Ralph Nader, asks the commission to investigate whether state spending on transportation projects since Hogan became governor violated Maryland’s conflict of interest rules.
The complaint, filed Tuesday, draws heavily on a report in Washington Monthly, published in January, under the headline “Who Does Maryland’s Governor Really Work For?”
The article focused in part on nearly $60 million in transportation improvements that Hogan included in the budget he submitted to the General Assembly in 2015. Those improvements, in southern Prince George’s County, occurred near land owned by HOGAN, the real estate firm the governor started in 1985.
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