Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy says she has the utmost confidence in her nominee to run the county’s Department of the Environment, even though he was terminated from the department in 2014 for “gross negligence.”

A group of environmental and community activists in the county is not so sure. And they’re likely to be on hand Thursday when Samuel Belsham Moki’s nomination comes up before a County Council committee.

“I was just flabbergasted that someone who had caused such a grievance against the county on environmental issues would now be tapped to lead the Department of Environment,” said Carlo Sanchez, a lifelong county resident who represented the county’s 47th District in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2018. “It’s just astounding, really.”

Sanchez said

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