1995 The MEMO of the Doj contradicts the complaint of the Governor of Maine. The cocaine investigation was politically motivated
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First on Fox: Maine Democratic Governor Janet Mills Newly unearthed Memo obtained by Fox News Digital contradicts his complaint that is old decades.
At the beginning of 1990, the USAO (USAO) prosecutor’s office in Maine, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Maine’s Office of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement (Bide) investigated Mills, then an in -office district prosecutor after a drug suspect accused him of using cocaine.
The investigation was finally abandoned without being deposited, but Mills argued that the investigation had never had a merit and that it was politically targeted for its democratic affiliation and its criticism of the offer. In 1990, she and two other Maine district prosecutors criticized the belly for inflating the number of arrests thanks to an excessive application of low -level drug delinquents.
“It’s frightening,” Mills told the Portland Press Herald In November 1991. “Maine apparently had a secret police force who can ruin the reputation of anyone who opposed it.”
Maine Governor Janet Mills is expressed during the northeast governors and Canadian ministers moderated the discussion on June 16, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)
A memorandum of March 1995 of the Office of Professional Responsibilities of the United States Ministry of Justice (DOJ / OPR), sent to the general sub-procurer, of which Merrick Garland was associated as the main assistant deputy prosecutor, discovered by Fox News Digital, refuge Mills’, revealing that there was no evil of the federal or state authorities investigating.
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According to the MEMO of the DoJ, WCSH-TV reported in December 1990 that Mills were the subject of a survey by a large federal jury for drug use, citing sources of application of the law. Mills then continued this journalist for defamation and slander. The report also prompted the Mill lawyer to demand an investigation by the Grand Jury, arguing that “the press has received leaks from managers of the application of the laws of the bidder”.
The results of the defamation and slander costume are no longer available. The case file has shown that the files had been eliminated in 2015 in accordance with the policy. However, a Article 1991 Lewiston Sun-Journal seems to indicate that the effort to “put an end to the rumors of drug probe” was expelled by a judge.
In January 1992, then-sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Intervened and asked the Doj / OPR investigating the allegations according to which Usao du Maine had “refused to investigate the flight of the great jury” and that the lawyers had engaged in “intimidation and coercion of witnesses” during the investigation.
The president of the time, Joe Biden, on the left, then the Attorne General, Merrick Garland, arrives for a ceremony to honor the medal of the 2021-2022 medal of the recipients of the value in the east room of the White House in Washington on May 17, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
These concerns were initially raised by Patrick Paradis and N. Paul Gauvreau, the chairs of the Chamber and the Senate of the Judicial Committee of the Legislative Assembly of Maine, in a letter sent at the time. George Mitchell, D-Maine. The letter suggests that the allegations involving the United States of Maine “go far beyond the involved state agency”.
In the end, no accusation was made against Mills for its alleged consumption of cocaine.
But the Ministry of Justice also noted that all the claims of Mills were not “founded”, including the allegations that it was politically targeted, that the investigators have requested false testimonies, that the witnesses were forced or threatened and that bogus agents disclosed information on the Grand Jury to the press.
“USAO in Maine conducted an appropriate investigation into serious allegations; no fault of any kind, can be attributed to a member of this office,” concluded the DoJ / OPR in 1995.
While the Ministry of Justice has demystified the allegations of Mills, it rejected allegations against it as a political motivation throughout the investigation.
Maine’s Democratic Governor Janet Mills said that an investigation of his cocaine consumption was politically motivated. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty)
According to the memo, Mills “announced publicly that it was the victim of a defamation campaign” in 1991.
“I would say that it is terribly coincident that this investigation began and was disclosed to the press shortly after my public comments on the lack of responsibility for Bide”, Mills said the same year.
Mills also said that he was establishing a “very bad precedent when a prosecutor had to look over his shoulder every time you put someone in prison and you ask if this person will find an audience in the street in the office of Bidé or at the bottom of the road in the office of the American prosecutor to say dirty things about you.”
Fox News Digital contacted the Mill office several times to comment but did not receive an answer.
Earlier this year, Mulls accused President Donald Trump of having carried out a “politically directed investigation” on Maine Department of Education.
During a meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) at the White House in February, Mills and Trump were publicly competed in organic men playing in female sports.
Earlier this year, Mills accused President Donald Trump of having led a “politically directed” investigation into the Maine Ministry of Education. (Getty Images)
Trump said Mills should comply with his executive decree preventing Transgender athletes From the competition in the sports of girls and women, or “you will not obtain any federal funding”, to which she replied: “We will see you in court”, which is exactly where the problem was linked.
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The longtime republican senator Susan Collins is to be re -elected in 2026, and with the mandate of the Mills Limited government next year, she would be a competitive democratic candidate to challenge Collins.
Mills indicated in April That she had not “planned to present herself for another office”, but admitted that “things are changing from week to week, from month to month”, leaving the door open to a potential Senate offer.
