Attorneys for Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt filed a second amended complaint last week in her lawsuit seeking to prevent Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake from continuing with her plans for an Internet-based phone system for city employees.

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After a heated and at times bitter debate between Baltimore’s mayor and comptroller, the city Board of Estimates Wednesday voted down a proposal for a new telephone system with IBM under a $7.4 million contract. At one point, Mayor Stephanie ...

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The city solicitor says spending on telephone and network equipment and services was not unusual and didn’t violate law. Solicitor George Nilson responded to the mayor’s request to determine the legality of the spending under two contracts without the comptroller’s ...

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The mayor’s office says a contract for phone and network equipment was competitively bid. A spokesman for the mayor said Thursday that city employees requested the purchase, not the more than two dozen consultants in the mayor’s information technology office ...

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