After a news conference in late March in which she apologized for upsetting the people of Baltimore with her deals to sell her “Healthy Holly” books to organizations with business before the city and the state, she disappeared from view. When she resigned in May, her attorney read a brief statement from Pugh in a 96-second news conference, and at her plea hearing in November, she only spoke to give brief answers to U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow.