Baltimore County Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Bid-Rigging at Tax Auctions

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Baltimore County lawyer and real estate investor Harvey M. Nusbaum pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal bid-rigging charge for colluding at tax lien auctions in various Maryland counties since 2002 and has agreed to a maximum prison term of 1 1/2 years in prison in addition to an $800,000 fine.

Nusbaum, who had pleaded not guilty along with longtime friend and co-conspirator Jack W. Stollof when they were indicted in June, appeared in U.S. District Court on Tuesday morning to accept responsibility for his part in the scheme that he agrees affected more than $10 million in interstate commerce. Prosecutors put that figure at $38.3 million.

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Baltimore County Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Bid-Rigging at Tax Auctions

The brief proceeding went smoothly, and Nusbaum and Nancy McMillen, the U.S. Department of Justice attorney prosecutin...

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