Convicted drug trafficker made large donations to Pr. George’s candidate

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A convicted heroin and cocaine trafficker is behind two of the three biggest donations to the campaign of Aisha Braveboy, a state House of Delegates candidate in Prince George’s District 25, according toan Examiner investigation.

Meir Duke, of Reisterstown, said Thursday he has never met Braveboy. The candidate does not know about his 1990 guilty plea to charges of conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, Duke said, or the four years he spent in federal prison for the crime.

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