Federal manhunt underway for man who was former Gov. Larry Hogan's chief of staff

[Stinky The Clown]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-fugitive-larry-hogans-chief-of-staff-roy-mcgrath/

A federal manhunt is underway for Roy McGrath, once the chief of staff to ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, after he failed to appear in court Monday for the first day of his trial on wire fraud and embezzlement charges.

The U.S. Marshals Service launched an interstate fugitive search after a federal judge issued a warrant for McGrath's arrest. McGrath's face is plastered on a U.S. Marshals poster, which highlights charges against him for wire fraud, theft in programs receiving federal funds and falsification of records in federal investigations.



A law enforcement source tells CBS News that McGrath's family was at his home in {Naples} Florida when FBI visited the house Tuesday morning. The source said his high profile and the widely circulating photos will make it difficult for him to remain at large.

McGrath was scheduled to appear in federal court in Baltimore on charges related to his tenure running the Maryland Environmental Service before joining Hogan's office as chief of staff in 2020. The 2021 indictment against McGrath says he sought to enrich himself personally by using his position as executive director of the agency and his role as chief of staff to the governor to engineer a payment from the agency he shouldn't have received. Prosecutors also allege that McGrath falsified his time sheets while he took a vacation to Europe and that he stole money for classes at Harvard. McGrath resigned from Hogan's office weeks after assuming the chief-of-staff job after an investigation found he wasn't forthcoming about the $230,000 severance package he had received for leaving the quasi-government agency, according to court filings.

Another Florida Man on the lam

[RockRaven]

1. Says a lot about Hogan's judgment, or his morals, to make this guy CoS.

Pick your poison, Hogan, which was it? Huh?

[Faux pas]

2. ...

Just an average representative of the moral minority

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. This is what Republicans do.

I don't call them the Organized Crime Party for nothing.

[gratuitous]

4. It will be difficult for McGrath to remain at large, huh?

If he's just winging it, being on the lam, then yes, he might not be out and about for very long. But if he's planned his escape, it sounds like he might have the scratch and the travel experience to just disappear. Why was McGrath not in custody or at least fitted with a monitor? Because rich white elite guys aren't flight risks?

[sarcasmo]

5. No manhunt for Brett Favre?

[Nictuku]

6. Grifters gotta Grift

[rubbersole]

7. Wondering if this had any influence on Hogan's decision to not run for president.

Bummer about that, Larry.

[C Moon]

8. I always wonder, after seeing this kind of post, how many of these people get away with it.

If there weren't some getting away with it, others wouldn't try.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. We probably don't want to know

the number in Florida alone, much less countrywide.

I am old, and thoroughly believe I will not live long enough to see Trump, his spawn, Jared or the Senate Republicans ever see a day in Prison.

Even if I live thirty more years, I would still believe the same............

I believe that Trump, Ivanka, and Jared alone grifted somewhere in the billions including Top Secret Intel sold.
Just think of Ivanka and Jared, and how much those two grifted off the PPE sales during the epidemic.......
If that could be proved, all three would be in Colroado's Super Max for life, the only fitting justice. Alone in a cell, 23 hours a day, with absolutely no way of communicating with the outside world, even fox news. LOL All meals in your cell, the guards being the only two people you see every day, no communicating with criminals in other cells. (The cells are soundproof)

Perfect place for them, and the top Republicans in the Senate, right along with them........Oh, and of course anyone that served in his crowd of agency secretaries, and many other of his appointments......

You could build a new Supermax for a thousand prisoners, and fill it with just Trump and Republicans from those 4+ years......

Like I said, I would bet a chunk of money, none of them will ever even see a single day, AND allowed to keep all the money.......

[C Moon]

10. Thanks for writing that in reply. And I agree 100%. It's always going to be an "if only" for them.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. You are most welcome....... NC