Baltimore Mayor Dixon found guilty

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (pictured) could be facing jail time after being found guilty of stealing gift cards that were meant for poor citizens of her city and using them for her own personal use.

Last January Dixon was indicted by a Maryland grand jury on 12 criminal counts, including theft and perjury, for alleged official misconduct beginning when she was a councilwoman as we reported here.

Dixon was brought to trial on 4 counts. A jury found her not guilty on all but the charge of stealing gift cards meant for needy citizens of her city.

Sheila Dixon will remain as Mayor of Baltimore until sentencing.

Dixon faces another trial in the spring on two perjury counts.

Those charges stem from an accusation that she failed to report on city ethics forms gifts from Ronald Lipscomb (Dixon’s former boyfriend), including money, travel and clothes. Mr. Lipscomb’s company received millions of dollars’ worth of city tax credits for its development projects in 2003 and 2004, the years he dated the mayor.

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