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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said on Thursday that he hasn’t decided what to do with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a well-connected donor who pleaded guilty to not paying $4 million in employment taxes.
Richard Stewart, a member of O’Malley’s redistricting committee and chairman of the governor’s re-election campaign in Prince George’s County, pleaded guilty earlier this month to not paying federal income taxes for a company he owned.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings have already vowed to return the contributions they accepted from Stewart, but O’Malley has made no such declaration.
“We’ll do the same thing,” O’Malley told reporters in Annapolis Thursday but did not elaborate. He added that the $7,500 had already been spent.
The governor has maintained that he was unaware of Stewart’s legal problems as state Republicans pressure him to return the funds.
