Mayor Martin O'Malley is scheduled to swear in a new chairman of the city's five-member Board of Ethics during a City Hall ceremony today.
O'Malley has chosen University of Baltimore President Robert L. Bogomolny to lead the board that enforces ethics rules governing the city's employees and elected officials. O'Malley also will swear in Dana Peterson Moore, a partner at the Whiteford, Taylor & Preston law firm, as one of his three board appointees. The other two board members are representatives of the mayor and the city solicitor.
Bogomolny begins immediately and replaces attorney Norman E. Parker Jr., who served as O'Malley's appointed chairman for more than four years until June 15. During Parker's tenure, the ethics board drafted an extensive revision to the ethics law that the City Council approved this month. Parker also co-wrote a stinging criticism last year of council members who accepted certain gifts and employed certain relatives.
