A federal judge issued a bench warrant Monday for a top aide to former Maryland governor Larry Hogan who faced federal wire fraud and embezzlement charges.
with dozens of charges stemming from his time working for a quasi-governmental agency he led before serving as Hogan’s chief of staff.
He became the subject of a joint investigation shortly after it was publicly revealed that he was given a nearly quarter-million-dollar severance package for himself when he left the Maryland Environmental Service . McGrath resigned from Hogan’s executive team shortly afterward. McGrath’s severance package, what the MES board was told and whether the governor knew about the payout became the focus of a legislative inquiry and the basis of the criminal investigation.McGrath was accused of personally enriching himself by “using his positions of trust” as the executive director of MES and the chief of staff for Hogan to cause MES to make the large payout and pay other expenses, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors also allege MES funds were used to make a personal pledge on McGrath’s behalf to the Academy Art Museum, where McGrath was a member of the board of directors; to pay the one year’s severance payment to McGrath of $233,647.23; and to cover a $14,475 tuition bill for a Harvard Kennedy School program he took after leaving MES.Efforts to reach his attorney were not immediately successful.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland said the court is expected to reconvene later Monday morning to determine how to proceed. “I don’t know if the judge will release the jury,” she said.
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