Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by http://OpenSecrets.org, Cummings' net worth as of 2012 was estimated between -$140,986 and $1,970,995. That averages to $915,004.50, which was lower than the average net worth of Democratic representatives in 2012 of $5,700,168.36. Cummings ranked as the 218th most wealthy representative in 2012. Between 2004 and 2012, Cummings' calculated net worth increased by an average of 40 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2012, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent.
Comparatively, the American citizen experienced a median yearly decline in net worth of -0.94%.

"This morning, I left my community of Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," he said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies." - Elijah Cummings, 1999

So he's been around at least two decades, and things have gotten worse on his watch. My favorite story about all this comes from Fox45 television in Baltimore, when a rat scurried across the screen as they were doing a live report. Couldn't have scripted it any better.

National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today filed a Complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), a 501(c)(3) organization headed by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, wife to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
Mrs. Cummings is currently Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and is a former candidate for Governor. Rep. Cummings is Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

The Complaint describes a score of apparent Internal Revenue Code violations, including prohibited private benefit and inurement of the Cummings. CGPS has received millions in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, in late 2017, was granted a million-dollar contract from the General Services Administration. The funds were purportedly provided to fight childhood obesity. The Complaint asks the IRS to investigate whether “its organizers are getting fat off the grants.”

At the same time she heads CGPS, Mrs. Cummings heads a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have been indistinguishable from those of CGPS. The two entities have shared office space, telephones, etc., all of which are flagrant violations of the Internal Revenue Code.

Another of the cited violations is a failure to provide or disclose a copy of IRS Form 990 when requested. According to Tom Anderson, director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project, who uncovered the violations, “Rep. Cummings is demanding President Trump’s tax returns and financial records. It looks like he has some tax problems of his oWn.

Cummings is a disgusting frog.

He made his name opposing every measure and attacking investigators when the H Clinton email scandal broke.

He is one of the libtards of the same denomination as Nadler, Schiff and Waters.

I am pretty upset that this Elijah dude is actually in some degree of power, and gets paid by our taxes. He is an idiot, period.

Laughing...they'd been Qed up!...eight ball in the corner pocket...