Pugh resigned in May, apologizing for the harm she caused to the city’s image amid a scandal over her sales of a self-published children’s book series. Her resignation came amid a public outcry over her sale of hundreds of thousands of dollars of her “Healthy Holly” books to organizations that do business with the city and to the University of Maryland Medical System, where she was on the board. Those deals were revealed in a series of articles in The Baltimore Sun that began March 13.