Records: Md. Ex-official Had State Workers Help With School Work

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Documents show that a member of Gov. Larry Hogan's cabinet who recently resigned had assigned state employees to help with course work for her master's degree studies.

C. Gail Bassette was secretary of the Department of General Services before abruptly leaving last month. Hogan's office said at the time that she leaving to work in the private sector.

Documents obtained by our media partner The Baltimore Sun shows that department employees conducted interviews and provided information for Bassette's course work in the months prior to her departure. Bassette is enrolled in a Master of Professional Studies: Technology Entrepreneurship program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Hogan Spokesman Douglass Mayer declined to say whether the administration had asked Bassette to leave.

Bassette didn't respond to multiple requests for comment from the newspaper.