and said quote miss holtton is innocent. there is no conspiracy and she is confident that this charge will meet the same fate as the earlier one. >> as far as the meat, how meaty it is. it is a snack. >> legal analyst julie ruben said he is probably right. >> the likelihood of either one of the witnesses seeing the world inside of a jail cell is remote. >> ruben said the bigger issue is not will she serve the maximum one year sentence if convicted. but what was she allegedly trying to hide. >> $12,500 is certainly a relative drop in the bucket. but one does have to ask, if there is this, what else might there be? >> and these new charges against holtton, and pad rack kiss came from testimony by lipscomb himself who earlier this year pled guilty to similar charges. in the meantime city council president stephanie rawlings-blake said holtton's position as chair of the taxation finance commit will be temporarily filled by councilman william cole until the matter is resolved. live outside of city hall. myranda stephens, fox 45 n

holtton's attorney calls the new charges a desperate attempt by the state. and some say he may be right. >> i do think that this is somewhat of an effort on mr. rohrbaugh's part to make good on the taxpayers expenses for a lot of years of a lot of investigations. that really, i think, today, nobody is really wowed by. >> and businessman john paterakis faces similar charges. both and he holtton could face up to a year in prison. and a $25,000 fine. we're live here outside of city hall, myranda stephens, fox 45 news "late edition". >> well, a hot muggy july day, will we get more of the same tomorrow. chief meteorologist vytas reid is here with a look at the sky watch forecast. >> yeah, jennifer, holding onto the humidity, and temperatures on the hot side of things. but we have a threat for a thunderstorm activity building up out of the south. going through the radar. we can see not a lot of activity out there right now. maybe a light shower up in cecil county. but we will see the rain down to the southwest. pushing up to our neck of the woods. heavy rain over