February 11, 2002, 6:34 PM EST
Walter S. Orlinsky
TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- Walter S. Orlinsky, who resigned as president of the Baltimore City Council in a bribery scandal but was later pardoned by President Clinton, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 63.
In the spring of 1982, Orlinsky was City Council president when he went to a restaurant and accepted an envelope stuffed with $2,532 in cash from an FBI informant.
It was an installment on a $10,032 bribe from Modern Earthline of Philadelphia for Orlinsky's help in the company earning a contract hauling sludge to abandoned strip mines.
Orlinsky resigned and pleaded guilty to extortion. He served 42 months in prison.
He returned to government in 1988, as executive director of a state
program to plant trees.
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