1.) How did you happen to purchase that St. John skirt suit at the Towson Nordstrom with $1,779.75 in cash?

2.) Did you believe it was ethical to request gift cards from Patrick Turner and other developers when you were one of the people deciding on lucrative tax breaks for their projects? (How is this different from asking for envelopes of cash, as Spiro Agnew and Dale Anderson did?)

3). We know the other trial hasn’t happened yet, but why don’t you explain why it was okay to have a developer with business before the city give you fur coats and pay for your hotel room bills?

4) Did it ever occur to you that dating developer Ron Lipscomb was unethical in the first place, because he was in the position to benefit from your political influence in his projects?

5.) Why do you find it unnecessary to explain yourself to the citizens of Baltimore? First you refuse to take the stand, then you leave the courthouse after the verdict without addressing the crucial moral and ethical issues brought to light at the trial.

6.) How have you been paying your seven attorneys? Do you expect the citizens of Baltimore to pick up your legal fees?

7.) Why did you return that Luella hobo bag? Seriously, though: do you have a shopping problem?

8.) How long were you dating developer Ronald Lipscomb? Last year you acknowledged the relationship publicly and said it began in late 2003 and ended in late 2004. But during the trial your attorneys said you thought the gift cards Turner and his partner gave you in 2005 and 2006 were actually romantic presents from Lipscomb. So your relationship with Lipscomb did not end in early 2004?

9.) How did you allow City Hall to reach the point where it was just, as Judge Dennis Sweeney observed, “swimming in gift cards?”

10.) Can you possibly lead the city in the wake of this conviction and, if you can’t, how and when will you transfer power to City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake?

– compiled by Joan Jacobson and the Brew staff