The former Maryland Environmental Service Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships invoked his right against self-incrimination more than 100 times, disappointing legislators during Thursday’s joint committee investigation of a severance payout to the agency’s former director, who was also briefly Gov. Larry Hogan’s, R, chief of staff.

Documents indicated Matthew Sherring, according to the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Fair Practices and Personnel Oversight documents, was hired by the state agency at the behest of former Director Roy McGrath in 2017, although the position was never formally advertised.

When Ward B. Coe, an attorney for the General Assembly, asked Sherring about his former position title, how he was hired into the environmental service and whom he reported to, he began invoking his right against self-incrimination.

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