Maryland GOP Treasurer Indicted for Yacht Funds Theft

Federal prosecutors indict James Appel, longtime Maryland GOP treasurer and fixer for candidates, on wire fraud and money laundering charges for allegedly stealing $200,000 in 2024. He siphoned $100,000 from a state delegate's campaign-likely Kathy Szeliga's, given the FBI probe into her accounts-and $100,000 from an Anne Arundel tennis nonprofit, routing it to refinance his 65-foot Pacific Mariner yacht. Read more about this...