Manhunt underway for Roy McGrath, ex-chief of staff to former Gov. Hogan, after no-show at fraud trial

[Dashinka 24,480]

On 3/20/2023 at 8:29 PM, yuna628 said:

Roy is still missing and it's been nothing but silence about this case.

 

But tonight an interesting clue. Someone using the name "Ryan Cooper" is publishing a book about McGrath on Amazon for purchase of a small fee. It's claiming to be a juicy tale about some kind of potential crimes Gov. Hogan did and of course making Roy out to be some kind of hero. It's due released on Wednesday. The lawyer claims no knowledge of it.

The real author, Ryan Cooper, claims no knowledge of it either.

I can't wait for the FBI to have fun with this one!

Not really sure I would depend on the FBI to really do anything.  As to did Hogan do anything wrong, who knows, but he is a career politician so I suppose it is very possible.

[Dashinka 24,480]

On 3/20/2023 at 9:01 PM, yuna628 said:

Based on what I've been able to see digging around this is self-published via Amazon with an obvious pseudonym. I'm guessing any money made goes to some sort of shady account. He's either alive and hiding out on some island thinking he won't be caught.. which is just stupid. Or he's dead or soon to die and this is some kind of weird manifesto. Not sure why you'd charge people for the viewing 'pleasure' though if you were dead.

So you are saying once an author of a book is dead, their books should be free?

[yuna628 9,671]

3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Not really sure I would depend on the FBI to really do anything.  As to did Hogan do anything wrong, who knows, but he is a career politician so I suppose it is very possible.

We don't know if Hogan did anything wrong certainly, but that's largely what some of the court case will determine. Hogan will have to testify under oath. Of course the book says that it's all Hogan's fault, but doesn't go into larger details. It openly admits that McGrath broke the law in some parts with regarding wiretapping and tries to excuse his actions in others.

3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

So you are saying once an author of a book is dead, their books should be free?

No I don't believe I did. The question is if McGrath is alive or dead to begin with, since he is currently listed as a fugitive. It is unknown who the person is that really wrote this book, most local reporters have three theories right now:

 

1) It's McGrath

2)It's an associate (one of those associates may have funneled money for him)

3) It's an unrelated grifter

 

All of these potentials could make things worse for McGrath when he is caught. The content of the book, certainly does not help his case in the way he thinks it does. No lawyer would ever advise their client to do this and we do have to question if alive or dead - where are the proceeds from this book going? If dead there will be no benefit to him. The person that claims to have written this has, according to reports, behaved suspicious and evasively. For all we know this person may be involved in hiding or removing him. I'm surprised it is still available for sale.

Edited March 22, 2023 by yuna628

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4 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Not really sure I would depend on the FBI to really do anything

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[Dashinka 24,480]

5 hours ago, yuna628 said:

We don't know if Hogan did anything wrong certainly, but that's largely what some of the court case will determine. Hogan will have to testify under oath. Of course the book says that it's all Hogan's fault, but doesn't go into larger details. It openly admits that McGrath broke the law in some parts with regarding wiretapping and tries to excuse his actions in others.

No I don't believe I did. The question is if McGrath is alive or dead to begin with, since he is currently listed as a fugitive. It is unknown who the person is that really wrote this book, most local reporters have three theories right now:

 

1) It's McGrath

2)It's an associate (one of those associates may have funneled money for him)

3) It's an unrelated grifter

 

All of these potentials could make things worse for McGrath when he is caught. The content of the book, certainly does not help his case in the way he thinks it does. No lawyer would ever advise their client to do this and we do have to question if alive or dead - where are the proceeds from this book going? If dead there will be no benefit to him. The person that claims to have written this has, according to reports, behaved suspicious and evasively. For all we know this person may be involved in hiding or removing him. I'm surprised it is still available for sale.

I was more referring to the statement you made "Not sure why you'd charge people for the viewing 'pleasure' though if you were dead."  That seemed to be a general statement that could be applied to all authors.

[Dashinka 24,480]

Sounds like this is over.

[yuna628 9,671]

Indeed. Last week it seemed like they had a general idea of where he was. Perhaps it had to do with the ''writer'' of the Amazon book releasing another volume of material - this time even more hilarious than the last. What's odd is that it seems Roy didn't make much of an effort to hide himself too well. The whole thing is strange.

 

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/roy-mcgrath-fugitive-found-manhunt-QBUF7AKQM5DN3PQD2OYJI43MA4/

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

There has to be more to this story.  The sum of money was far too small for it to end this way.  And no mention of McGrath having a gun.  Hopefully the FBI had a loaner handy.

[Dashinka 24,480]

15 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

There has to be more to this story.  The sum of money was far too small for it to end this way.  And no mention of McGrath having a gun.  Hopefully the FBI had a loaner handy.

I was thinking the same thing.  Maybe the elite insiders are farming their work out to the FBI.

[yuna628 9,671]

52 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

There has to be more to this story.  The sum of money was far too small for it to end this way.  And no mention of McGrath having a gun.  Hopefully the FBI had a loaner handy.

He did have guns and was required to surrender them. Obviously they missed that he may have had some others. They may have also missed that he had dual citizenship after the fact, not that it mattered much as he was still in the country.

 

All I can say is, some of our best investigative journalists uncovered the initial wrongdoing, which resulted in him being kicked off the staff. However, at the same time someone had to have been tipped off about the wiretapping going on, which caused an additional investigation. That may be related to another pandemic/scandal that those same journalists were looking into, which McGrath and certainly Hogan had been involved in. One local blogger reported that it was very odd, that in McGrath's manuscript he mentioned having a beef with another guy that also worked on Hogan's early campaigning days. There was an old scandal back then involving sex and a staffer, that they guy may have helped tamp down but the guy had been rewarded in the administration well (so was McGrath too), but McGrath did come off as a somewhat unstable and jealous kind of person.  

Edited April 5, 2023 by yuna628