Scandal may bar firm from state business

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Maryland?s attorney general is “gathering information” on the Baltimore contractors that illegally secured lucrative government contracts, potentially banning the company from doing business with the state.

Officials said Poole and Kent ? whose former president was sentenced to jail Monday for bribing former state Sen. Thomas Bromwell in exchange for top government projects ? could join 29 other companies barred from state contracts. A spokeswoman Monday said prosecutors are “looking into the issue.”

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