Maryland Gov. Hogan's former chief of staff is indicted on federal wire fraud charges

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-former-chief-staff-indicted-/2021/10/05/96d06f18-25f8-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, was indicted in federal court on Tuesday, charged with defrauding Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental agency he previously led.

McGrath resigned as Hogan’s (R) top aide in August last year after it was publicly revealed that he authorized a quarter-million-dollar severance package for himself when he left the agency.

McGrath’s spending, which included tuition reimbursements and overseas travel, became the subject of a probe by Maryland lawmakers.

The indictment says McGrath “willfully devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud MES and the state of Maryland of money and property … to enrich himself personally by using his positions of trust as executive director of MES and chief of staff of the governor.”

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1. Whoa!

'he authorized a quarter-million-dollar severance package for himself when he left the agency.'

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2. So he resigned because of this investigation

Heading is misleading

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3. Nothing's Shocking

Anymore

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