This statement from Mayor Catherine Pugh comes as the University of Maryland Medical System places its CEO on leave today, amid disclosures that members of its board – including Pugh – received lucrative contracts from UMMS.

In interviews yesterday, Pugh declined to release her personal and business tax filings. Today’s news release represents Pugh’s most detailed comments yet on her self-published Healthy Holly children’s books, for which UMMS paid her $500,000:

“As many people know, I am very interested in health and fitness – particularly as it relates to our children. They may not know that I have been a publisher since 1979 and an author for 25 years.

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