The previous chief of employees to ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan died after he was captured Monday in Tennessee, almost three weeks after he failed to look in federal court docket final month on fraud and different expenses, authorities and his lawyer mentioned.
Roy McGrath, 53, suffered a gunshot wound and succumbed to accidents, lawyer Joseph Murtha mentioned in an e mail.
It wasn’t clear whether or not the damage was self-inflicted or whether or not it occurred in an change of gunfire with FBI brokers, Murtha mentioned.
An FBI spokesman mentioned an “agent-involved taking pictures” is beneath evaluation however declined to remark additional on who fired the deadly shot. McGrath suffered the damage throughout his arrest in Knoxville at 6:30 p.m., mentioned the spokesman, Shayne Buchwald.
“The lack of Roy’s life is an absolute tragedy,” Murtha mentioned. “I feel it is necessary for me to say that Roy by no means wavered about his innocence.”
McGrath failed to look for trial on federal wire fraud, theft and falsification expenses on March 13. Two weeks later, the FBI supplied a $10,000 reward for info resulting in his arrest, saying he was a fugitive and a world flight danger.
McGrath was Hogan’s deputy chief of employees in 2015 earlier than Hogan appointed him to guide the Maryland Environmental Service in December 2016.
He briefly returned as Hogan’s chief of employees in 2020 earlier than he resigned amid a backlash over a big severance payout from the service.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Maryland accused McGrath of utilizing his place on the nonprofit public company — which gives waste administration, recycling and different companies to authorities businesses and the non-public sector — to complement himself by fraudulently claiming Hogan had authorized the payout.
Federal prosecutors in Maryland additionally accused McGrath of illegally recording non-public conversations with officers, falsifying time sheets and directing service funds to a museum the place he was a member and to pay for tuition advantages.
Zoë Richards contributed.