Chris McCollum in Court Today to Face Campaign Embezzlement Charges

The fate of a once high-flying Baltimore County political operative, the subject of many Brew investigative stories, should be partly settled today in a Towson courtroom.

William Christopher “Chris” McCollum, 52, was charged in February by State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard III with felony theft, embezzlement and perjury involving two campaign committee accounts he controlled.

McCollum is expected to plead guilty this morning before Circuit Court Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr., with a statement of facts read into the record.

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