BALTIMORE: ‘THE PIT OF HELL’

Where HAS all the money gone? The truth is Baltimore can't account for millions while poverty is rampant and drugs, danger and yes, rats lurk around every corner of the 7th District, a DailyMail.com investigation reveals

Daily Mail
August 2, 2019

President Trump prompted outrage when he described Congressman Elijah Cummings Baltimore 7th District as a, 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.'

The president demanded to know where the $16 billion of Federal funding given to the city had gone.

The city itself cannot account for the millions that have poured into its coffers, according to Baltimore's most recent audit analyzed by DailyMail.com. The 2018 audit notes numerous 'significant deficiencies' and 'material weaknesses' across almost every department. It found a consistent lack of any internal tracking of funds.

In disturbing photos, DailyMail.com captured the grim living conditions as we spoke to demoralized residents.

'I have a three-year-old son who lives with his mother in Pennsylvania,' Smooze told us. 'That's how I want it. If he was here he'd be dead before he was 21. Trump's words were true,' Smoove admitted, 'I could accept them if they came from anybody but him.'

Diane has lived in Gilmore Homes all her life. The area is consistently ranked among Baltimore's top three most dangerous housing complexes. According to Diane, 'What Trump said is true! Look around. It's the pit of hell.'

EDITOR’S NOTE: Where has all the money gone? That money, which was supposed to fund programs designed to improve the terrible living conditions within Baltimore’s black community, lined the pockets of local politicians and the managers of the city programs the federal funds were intended for.