Administrative Law Judge Backs Whalens Catonsville Medical Office Proposal by Knezevich - Essay Example

The Baltimore Sun on February 4, 2013, published an article titled “Administrative law judge backs Whalen’s Catonsville medical office proposal”. The article discusses how a Baltimore County administrative law judge gave his approval to a developer’s proposal, Steve Whalen, for a medical office project within Catonsville. This was one month after the guilty plea by Whalen to dishing out illegal campaign contributions to county politicians. In his approval, Judge John E. Beverungen argued that the proposal of coming up with the southwest physician's pavilion, planned for Kenwood Avenue near the Beltway meets all the zoning laws of the country, as well as complying with its set master plan. This was weeks after Whalen had pleaded guilty in January for up to five counts of violating state election law by admitting that he had funneled $ 7,500 towards the campaign of County Councilman Tom Quirk, who is the representative of Catonsville area, by giving the money to others so that they can give it to quirk (Knezevich 2013).