A manhunt began March 13 after Roy McGrath failed to appear in federal court on fraud, embezzlement charges.
The slight, graying man peering wide-eyed and uncomfortable from a wanted poster in a pinstriped shirt and yellow tie, his top coat button still buttoned, has now been at the center of a federal manhunt for nearly a week.Efforts to find 53-year-old Roy C. McGrath, a former top aide to then Gov. Larry Hogan , have intensified since he failed to appear Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on federal wire fraud and embezzlement charges.
Experts say federal authorities will spare no expense to ensure he doesn’t escape after dodging the first day of a scheduled three-week trial on Wednesday morning, federal agents gathered outside McGrath’s home in a gated, palm tree lined neighborhood in Naples, Fla., and approached his front door with a battering ram. Moments later, they led McGrath’s wife outside. The episode is shown in a video taken by Robert Desiano, owner of the online news outlet Naples News Now, who lives in the neighborhood and said he happened upon the spectacle on his way to the gym.
“I know you did nothing wrong. I know it is unfair. I will stand with you,” Hogan wrote to his former aide in an undated message after it was publicly revealed that McGrath received the payment. “This is devastating my life,” McGrath told Hogan in a private text message in 2020, according to an image obtained by The Washington Post.
In interviews in 2021 with 20 current and former state government and statehouse officials who worked with McGrath as he came up in Maryland politics, almost all told The Post they were caught off guard by the news of his severance package and excesses in spending. They described him as being a straightforward, formal and, at times, stiff colleague who focused on work and did not seem to have outsize political ambitions.
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