Dixon acknowledges relationship

The Baltimore Sun has an exclusive report on the newest revelations about state prosecutors' investigation of "bribery, perjury and misconduct in office" into Mayor Sheila Dixon's gifts and relationship with a prominent developer while she was president of the City Council.

The result of a two-year investigation, court records presented to a Baltimore County District Court show trips and gifts Dixon received from Ronald. H. Lipscomb, a developer who had business before the city that she voted on.

Dixon told the Sun in a statement that she and Lipscomb "had a personal relationship" in late 2003 and early 2004 while they were estranged from their spouses, and acknowledged that gifts were exchanged.

The gifts were not reported, which is likely in violation of city ethics law and punishable in the same manner as perjury.