A member of the Democratic Party, he represented District 25 in Prince George's County, first in the house of delegates from 1987 to 1995, then in the senate from 1995 to 2019.
He was the first of his family to go to college and earned his undergraduate degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
On May 29, 2008, it was reported that the FBI had searched Currie's District Heights home and taken documents related to his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy.
[8] On September 1, 2010, a federal grand jury indicted Currie and Shoppers Food Warehouse Corporation executives William J.
However, in 2012 he was censured by the state senate for ethics violations from facts discovered during the investigation,[10] and was forced to resign from the chairmanship of the Budget and Taxation Committee.