ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The way prosecutors describe him, the head of Maryland’s fourth-largest county is a bully who abused his office and used his police bodyguards and secretary as his personal servants.
They say John Leopold had officers put up campaign signs and drive him to repeated sexual romps in a bowling alley parking lot. He required officers to prepare dossiers on political challengers and drive him to sabotage a rival’s campaign signs. Prosecutors say Leopold also had them work overtime when he was hospitalized for back surgery, assigning an extra officer to ensure his live-in girlfriend and another woman he was involved with didn’t meet. And when he left the hospital, he allegedly forced his secretary to empty his catheter bag several times a day.
