<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2TeYNG_0viMoWoa00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2TeYNG_0viMoWoa00" width="1320" height="743" >WASHINGTON (7News) — U.S. Senate Democratic candidate and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks explained on Monday why she improperly benefitted from tax credits on a D.C. home she owned from 2003 to 2018."I would never take a tax credit I wasn't entitled to," said Alsobrooks.On Sunday, it was revealed Alsobrooks owned a home in D.C. for close to 15 years. That property had a homestead exemption on it which gave her a tax cut even though she didn't qualify for it because she was never the property's primary resident.<div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H0Fz_HFvwMc?enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer" frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div>She saved nearly $14,000 in taxes on the property."There's a house in D.C. that my grandmother lived in. When she needed to move out of the house, I took over the house, started paying the mortgage, paid it until I sold the house," said Alsobrooks.The 7News I-Team did some digging and discovered Alsobrooks became the owner of the home on November 29, 2003, after her mother deeded it over to Alsobrooks for $0.Seven months later in June, her grandmother paid off what appears to be the final payment on the home.A month earlier in May, Alsobrooks took out a $130,000 loan on her D.C. house in her name.It was the first of four mortgages on the property. Each one increased in 2005, 2006, and 2016.<ul><li>2004- $130,000</li><li>2005- $156,000</li><li>2006- $200,000</li><li>2016- $206,200</li></ul>Alsobrooks paid off all the loans but each year her property was getting a tax break she didn't qualify for.Alsobrooks said on Monday she didn't receive any tax bills. 7News learned all four mortgages were in her name on the D.C. property and her name has been on the deed recorded with the District for more than a decade."The bills weren't sent to me. They were actually sent to my grandmother. I was just paying through the mortgage company, but the bills in D.C. weren't sent to me. They were in someone else's name, so I didn't know because they weren't sent to me," added Alsobrooks.7News has reached out to Alsobrooks office and campaign with a lot of questions. But so far, no response.We asked the following questions:Question 1: Can Angela explain why she said “The bills weren't sent to me” when in fact she was deeded the DC house in 2004 by her mother and her grandparents paid off her grandparent's loan 7 months later in June and Angela Alsobrooks took out a $130,000 loan in May of 2004 and followed that up by taking another 3 loans through 2016. All her loans were in her name and not her grandmother's according to DC records.Question 2: Angela Alsobrooks served as Prince George’s County State Attorney from 2010 to 2018. In her opinion should a County State Attorney be aware of the tax laws in her own County/State that say she can’t take a homestead exemption at her Prince George’s home if she isn’t the primary resident which she wasn’t when she moved into her new home?Question 3: Why was she unaware as a State County Attorney who served 2 terms that she was never qualified to have a homestead exemption in DC because the DC house was not at any time her primary residence?Question 4: From 2004 to 2010 Angela Alsobrooks was the Executive Director of Prince George’s County Revenue Authority. Shouldn’t She have been aware of tax laws with that job?Question 5: Can Angela Alsobrooks provide documentation that she paid any of her grandmother’s mortgages for her DC home when the house was in her grandmother’s name?Alsobrooks said on Monday the tax bill is now being corrected and it was an oversight.Alsobrooks was the State's County Attorney in Prince George's County for two terms while she owned the house in D.C. Plus, she was also Prince George's County's Executive Director of the Revenue Authority from 2004 to 2010 while owning the D.C. home.The Revenue Authority serves as a real estate development agency.</div></body>

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WASHINGTON (7News) — U.S. Senate Democratic candidate and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks explained on Monday why she improperly benefitted from tax credits on a D.C. home she owned from 2003 to 2018. \"I would never take a tax credit I wasn't entitled to,\" said Alsobrooks. On...

WASHINGTON (7News) — U.S. Senate Democratic candidate and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks explained on Monday why she improperly benefitted from tax credits on a D.C. home she owned from 2003 to 2018. "I would never take a tax credit I wasn't entitled to," said Alsobrooks. On...