The Carl Stanley McGee controversy continues to rock the Patrick Administration.
The Patrick administration aide accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy worked for months as the governor’s point man on the legalization of casinos, meeting with high-level executives and lawmakers now reeling from news that he faces criminal charges in Florida.
Carl Stanley McGee’s unpaid leave of absence to deal with the charges leaves the administration without a critical player who was not only a liaison to executives and legislators, but a key public advocate in the roiling debate over expanded gambling.
“He was their top person on casinos,” said one official who met with McGee to discuss Gov. Deval Patrick’s legislation recently. “This does not bode well for the administration’s proposal.”
McGee, 38, who was paid $115,000 a year as assistant secretary of policy and planning, was charged last month with violating Florida’s sexual battery laws in an encounter with a 15-year-old boy in the steam room at Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande.
A police report on the incident accuses McGee of removing his towel in the steam room and performing sex acts on the boy, whose father later contacted authorities about the incident.
McGee, whose lawyer has not returned phone calls, is due to be arraigned in Florida on Monday.
UPDATE: More from the AP, Wonkette.com and the Boston Herald.
SECOND UPDATE: From the Globe.
