Whether or not Maryland state Sen. Ulysses Currie (D) faces criminal penalties for failing to properly disclose his employment as a consultant with a company with business before the state legislature, his peers in the Senate will be looking in to his dealings. Senate President Mike Miller (D) has said an ethics investigation will be convened to assess Currie's potential violations of disclosure requirements.

Currie was employed as a consultant by Shopper's Food Warehouse, a relationship he failed to note on his financial disclosure forms despite holding a powerful position on the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and involving himself in business related to permits for Shopper's. From the Washington Post:

According to court documents, Currie began working for Shoppers in early 2003 and was paid more than $207,000 from that time until 2007. Among his activities were prodding state transportation officials on installing traffic signals and approving a parking lot entrance.


"On the surface, it appears clearly an ethics law has not been adhered to," Miller said. "Regardless of what the federal government does, this will be an issue taken up by the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics."