Currie jury asks judge about timing

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 7, 2011
Tags: bribery, conspiracy, grocery store, Prince George's County, r. kevin small, shoppers food, shoppers food warehouse, state senator, ulysses currie, william j. white
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A federal judge on Monday told the jury weighing a bribery and conspiracy case against Sen. Ulysses Currie that the alleged conspiracy between him and two former grocery store executives did not have to occur in the first months of an alleged six-year timeframe. The note came on the second full day of deliberations in [...]

Scope of Currie’s contract, actions at issue

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: September 27, 2011
Tags: Annapolis, bribery, General Assembly, joshua r. treem, lucius t. outlaw, maryland department of transportation, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, mondawmin mall, r. kevin small, schulman treem and gilden, shoppers food warehouse, state senate, traffic light, trial, U.S. District Court, ulysses s. currie, william j. white

Federal prosecutors opened their case against state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie on Tuesday by casting him as a greedy lawmaker who strong-armed state agency officials to benefit Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp., which paid him a “consulting” fee of nearly $250,000 over the course of five years. But Currie’s defense counsel said the senator’s work on [...]

Shoppers Food Warehouse must share documents with Currie

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: July 25, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, bribery, Prince George's County, r. kevin small, shoppers, Shoppers Food Warehouse & Pharmacy, state senator ulysses s. currie, U.S. District Court, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett, william c. brennan jr., william j. white

State Sen. Ulysses S. Currie will have access to nearly 3 million documents now held by Shoppers Food Warehouse & Pharmacy as he mounts his defense against charges that he accepted a bribe of more than $245,0000 in return for using his legislative office to benefit the retailer. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett ordered [...]