I got in this morning after a few days out of the office and saw an e-mail letting me know that @Peter_Angelos was now following me on Twitter. My BS detector went off immediately. (See how quick on the uptake we trained reporters are?) Can you imagine the cantankerous, 79-year-old personal injury mogul and Orioles owner on Twitter?

Sure enough, it’s clearly a fake, but a pretty funny one. The pseudo-Angelos idenitifies himself as an “uber-ambulance chaser” and muses about “refreshing myself with a quick swim in my money vault before heading to Camden Yards. Note to self: wear underpants.” Another gem: “Note to self: place sun on probation. I’m paying good money & I expect that stupid ball of fire to blind Johnny Damon on routine pop-ups.”

If you are wondering, Twitter says it may suspend people who impersonate others on the service if they actually confuse or mislead people into thinking they’re the real deal. Parody, on the other hand, is fair game: “Parody impersonation accounts are allowed to exist. The profile information on a parody account must make it obvious that the profile is fake, or it is subject to removal from Twitter.com.” (HT: Slate, which saw one of its own reporters impersonated on Twitter last week.)

I’m thinking my new friend @Peter_Angelos is in the clear.

Obligatory self-promotional note: You can follow me on Twitter @CarynTamber.

A pending motion to unseal more of the corruption case against former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell Sr. and his wife, Mary Pat, comes at a curious time (even aside from how it fits in with the movant-intervenor William C. Bond’s pro se litigation schedule).

As Bond seeks to know why Gerard P. Martin and Joshua R. Treem switched clients in the Bromwell case and why the presiding judge disqualified them on the eve of trial, those same two lawyers are in the thick of defending the latest high-profile political corruption case: the state prosecutor’s investigation of a prominent Baltimore developer’s influence at City Hall.

Treem represents Baltimore City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton, who has been indicted for allegedly taking a bribe, in the form of a political poll, from developer Ronald H. Lipscomb. Lipscomb, who also faces a bribery count, is represented by Martin. Lipscomb’s trial is scheduled for June; Holton’s is slated for October. (Mayor Sheila A. Dixon has also been indicted and is supposed to stand trial after Labor Day.)

Now, there’s no reason to believe history will repeat itself here. The Bromwell episode is but one in Martin’s and Treem’s long careers defending big cases, and the Bromwells’ status as husband-and-wife co-defendants is quite different from Holton’s and Lipcomb’s relationship as alleged partners in a bribe.

It just provides some curious context for the April 23 motions hearing (to dismiss the indictments) in the case and the trials later this year.

Bob Rhudy, Baltimore lawyer/mediator and erstwhile Daily Record columnist, was interviewed on NPR’s “Morning Edition” Monday for a segment on senior mediation. Better yet, he gets the last word in the online version. Read it here, or listen to “Your health: Mediators help families with tough choices of aging.” (Rhudy’s comments start about 2:55 into the 4:41-minute file).

ON THE COVER: Foreclosure Fraud Fighters — In Prince George’s County, prosecutors are taking on scams against troubled homeowners with a full-time mortgage fraud division. Read about the division, and about how a woman who lost her home helped prosecutors make their case.

In Breaking News, the USAO is willing to unseal more Bromwell docs; a school board must pay for a vice principal’s defense; and the Court of Appeals holds that the death of a third judge is not a bar to a 2-0 opinion.

Read about how a jury awarded $1 million to a couple victimized by an equity-stripping foreclosure rescue scam in this week’s Verdicts & Settlements.

Robert J. Rhudy and Joe Surkiewicz write about how “emeritus” attorneys are wanted for a new homeless vets project in Of Service.

In My First, attorney Kelly A. Donohue talks about how her experience as a beauty queen taught her not only how to position her feet but how to think on them.

The Editorial Advisory Board discusses the state of newspapers, Senators Cardin and Mikulski’s bill to allow them to become non-profits and what other alternatives are out there.

Stay up-to-date with our Legal briefs and Law digest, with cases from the Maryland Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court, Maryland.

Happy Monday! Here are a few links to start the week:

• Maryland’s public safety secretary wants Congress to let him crack down on contraband cell phones in prisons by jamming the signals.

• Sexting–I am so sick of that word–might be less of an epidemic than previously estimated.

• “The ‘victim was old anyway’ argument is offensive and cold…but not, relatively speaking, entirely untrue,” writes Ron Miller.
• OK, so the entries in the ABA Journal’s Peeps in Law contest do not hold a candle to those in the Washington Post’s annual diorama contest, but they’re worth a look anyway. Let’s cut the contestants some slack–this was the contest’s first year.
• “Having long observed as well as experienced aging, I question the wisdom and virtue of people in their 70s who continue to exercise great power over others,” a Duke law prof writes in the Times today. Some Supreme Court justices in the past have hung around the court too long, he argues. HT: How Appealing.

I’ve admittedly been a slacker in my announced effort to track the annotations of Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. in his written opinions for the Court of Appeals.

Then Harrell himself provided just the jolt I needed last week in his opinion concerning the validity of a three-judge panel’s ruling when one of the judges dies before the decision is issued, which I wrote about in today’s paper.

It’s right in the first sentence: “With the filing of this opinion, this Court will have completed a ‘Goldilocks’ trilogy,” a reference to two prior cases also dealing with the proper amount of judges needed for a proceeding. The footnote cites a folklore dictionary.

Thus inspired, I reviewed Harrell’s other decisions from this year. A March 12 opinion concering real property ownership begins, “This fracas over lebensraum.“ The German word means “living space” but, as a concept, is most closely associated with Hitler’s plan to expand Germany’s borders under the Third Reich.

In the same opinion, Harrell uses the word “demurrer,” defining it in a footnote for “our newer generations of lawyers” because the term is no longer part of pleading requirements in the state.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more updates — provided I don’t forget again.