Found Deceased MD - manhunt for Roy McGrath, one-time chief of staff to former Maryland Governor Hogan, Baltimore, Mar 2023

[acutename]

Is The Baltimore Banner an approved source?

 

[Eli9]

Is The Baltimore Banner an approved source?

If you are referring to my post please feel free to report it.

 

[sds71]

Knox County medical examiners conducted an autopsy and found McGrath suffered two gunshot wounds to his head. Prosecutors determined one of the shots was fired by an FBI agent, the other by McGrath himself. But prosecutors concluded the shots happened simultaneously. They based that conclusion in part on a bystander’s cellphone video of the confrontation.


Report provides additional details of the fatal encounter between FBI agents and ex-Hogan administration official Roy McGrath in Tennessee after he skipped trial. From @Tim_Prudente: Records present fuller account of FBI shooting of former Maryland official Roy McGrath

 

[RoughLove]

Was just reading through this thread: So they are saying he shot himself at the exact same time the agent shot him? Talk about crazy timing. I do wonder why they were so intent on catching this guy? I mean I feel like there is a lot of people doing what he did. If it happened how they said it's sad they couldn't talk him out of it. I guess if he could of really gone to jail for 100 years I kinda understand that he knew his life was over anyway.

 

[neesaki]

Book on wanted fugitive Roy McGrath lashes out at Hogan

The author of a self-published book released online Wednesday claims a former Maryland governor orchestrated the federal prosecution of his chief of staff.

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@MaddiONeill

The book does claim that McGrath started recording his phone calls with other top officials because he sensed a “looming scandal” related to the tests. That is probably not going to cut it as a defense when McGrath faces state charges for illegally recording those conversations.

The recorded convos are also relevant to McGrath's federal trial (the one he skipped out on). The judge overseeing the trial has not ruled on the admissibility of the recordings if McGrath wanted to use them as part of his defense.

If McGrath is caught and faces trial, we may well learn more about this book. If these interviews with Ryan Cooper really did happen, federal prosecutors will be very interested in what McGrath had to say. I'll wrap up here for now.
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Wait, one more thing. How could I forget to share my favorite line in the book

I don’t get it . How was him accepting severance pay, regardless of the amount, fraudulent.

 

[sds71]

I don’t get it . How was him accepting severance pay, regardless of the amount, fraudulent.

According to prosecutors, after press accounts of his severance payment, McGrath created a “memorandum” to the governor which referenced a salary of $233,647.23, and a severance package from MES.

The allegedly false memorandum included a blue check mark, as characteristically used by Hogan, in an “approved” box, creating the illusion that the governor had seen and approved the memorandum.

The memorandum was also backdated to May 18, 2020, which the indictment alleges was the date McGrath interviewed for the chief of staff position.

Snee had told the governor’s lawyer that McGrath claimed Hogan approved of the severance. Snee also told state investigators that the severance arrangement had “fundamental differences” with payouts that were made to prior executive directors who had departed the environmental service under different circumstances. One was a longtime executive director who retired and the other was terminated, Snee told investigators. McGrath, however, was voluntarily leaving the environmental service after only a couple years for another job in state government.
Board members were “very uncomfortable” with McGrath’s deal, Snee told state investigators, who summarized his statements in an application for a search warrant of McGrath’s home in Edgewater.

Prosecutors: Governor's Former Chief of Staff Falsified Memo to Hogan About Severance Payment - Maryland Matters

A superseding indictment from a federal grand jury alleges that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s former chief of staff forged a “memorandum” from the...

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Documents reveal how Larry Hogan learned of Roy McGrath's alleged fraud

Documents obtained from state prosecutors shed new light on the early days of the Roy McGrath scandal — including what then-Gov. Larry Hogan knew, and when he knew it.

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