Something strange happened the day Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, obtained the Washington, D.C., home at the center of an ongoing property tax scandal. As Alsobrooks tells it, she received the home from her grandmother in November 2003, when the senior became too old to live alone. Alsobrooks, who now serves as county executive of Prince George's County, Md., never lived in the property and instead rented it out until she sold it in 2018. Throughout all those years, the Senate candidate improperly claimed tax exemptions on the property meant only for seniors and primary residents of the district—costly errors that landed Alsobrooks a $47,500 bill for back taxes and interest earlier in October. But Washington, D.C., property records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show there's more to the story. Those records indicate Alsobrooks took greater lengths to avoid paying her fair share of taxes beyond claiming tax exemptions for which she was ineligible. And when Alsobrooks took out a $130,000 mortgage on the property after she secured it in her name, she appears to have failed to follow through on a requirement to use it as her primary residence.

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