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Janet Mills, of the Maine Democratic government, lost words last month while traveling to the country’s capital, when cocaine was allegedly suspected.
“What–?” Mills replied when asked if “sniffing cocaine at work” was a “human right.”
Mills refused to answer the question, followed by “How much does inflation cost eight balls?” Mills ignored the second question and continued walking.
Source shared the video with Fox News Digital After reporting Friday The Justice Department argued that Mills’ decades-old investigation into cocaine use was politically motivated.
Governor Janet Mills will make a statement at the Selectusa Investment Summit held in National Harbor, Maryland on May 4, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
In early 1990, the U.S. Lawyers’ Office (USAO), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Maine Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement Agency (BIDE) investigated Mills, the Maine district attorney.
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The investigation was ultimately deleted without being requested. Mills argues that the investigation never had merit, and that she was politically targeted for her democratic affiliation and criticism of Baid. In 1990, she and two other Maine district attorneys criticized Bide for inflating arrests through excessive enforcement of low-level drug offenders.
“Scary,” Mills said. Portland Press Herald November 1991.
In March 1995, a memorandum from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Expert Responsibility (DOJ/OPR) found that Deputy Attorney General – Merrick Garland, serving as the leading Associate Deputy Attorney General, was unearthed by Fox News Digital. It made it clear that there was no misconduct by federal or state authorities investigating her case.
Maine Governor Janet Mills will speak during the presidency discussion held in Boston on June 16th, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the DOJ memo, WCSH-TV reported in December 1990 that Mills was being investigated by the Federal Ju Court for drug use, citing law enforcement sources. Mills later sued the reporter for honour and slander. The report also urged Mills’ attorneys to request a large ju court investigation, claiming that “the press has received a leak from a Bide law enforcement officer.”
Honorary lib loss and slander results are no longer available. The docket in the case indicated that records were disposed of in 2015 in accordance with the policy. But a 1991 Lewiston Sun-Journal Article It appears that the effort to “end drug probe rumours” was abandoned by a judge.
In January 1992, Sen was at the time. Joe Bidend-del. has investigated allegations that Maine USAO “refused to investigate a large ju court’s omission” and requested that DOJ/OPR investigate the investigation, which was engaging in “intimidation and enforcement of witnesses” during the prosecutor’s investigation.
These concerns were raised by then-Perric Paradis and by the then Judiciary Committee, Patrick Paradis and N. Paul Goveraud, chairs in the House and Senate of the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. George Mitchell, D-Main. The letter suggested that allegations relating to Maine USAO “exceeds far beyond the state agencies involved.”
President Joe Biden will arrive with Attorney General Merrick Garland for a Valor medal on May 17, 2023 in the White House East Room. (Aldrago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In the end, no charges were made against Mills.
However, the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that all of Mills’s claims were “bassed” including allegations that she was politically targeted, investigators seeking false testimony, witnesses were forced or threatened, and Bido Agent leaked major jury information to the press judge.
“Maine USAO has conducted a proper investigation into serious allegations. No misconduct of any kind can be attributed to members of its office,” the DOJ/OPR concluded in 1995.
The DOJ uncovered Mills’s claims, but dismissed the allegations against her that she was politically motivated through the investigation.
Mills publicly announced in 1991 that she was a victim of the smear campaign, according to the memo.”
“I think it’s awfully coincidence that this investigation began and leaked to the press shortly after my public comments about the lack of accountability in Bido,” Mills said, “We’re terribly inadvertently. I said it was the same year.
President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed in the White House over compliance with the executive order. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Mills also argued that he sets a very bad precedent whenever a prosecutor has to look over his shoulder every time he gets into prison, and when he wonders if he’ll find an audience on the streets along the streets of a US lawyer’s office to say dirty things about you.
Fox News Digital contacted Mills’ office multiple times to comment on the note, but no response was received.
Earlier this year, Mills denounced the president Donald Trump Leading Maine’s “Political Directed Survey” Ministry of Education.
At a National Association of Governors (NGA) conference held at the White House in February, Mills and Trump were publicly abiding by biological men playing in women’s sports.
Trump Mills said he should obey His executive order is prevented Transgender athlete From competition in sports for girls and women, or “You’re not going to get federal funds,” she replies, “We’ll meet you in court,” which is exactly where the matter is tied up.
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Longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins will begin re-election in 2026 and along with Mills Governorship Term Limited next year, she will become a competitive Democratic candidate to challenge Collins.
Mills It is shown in April She “didn’t have plans to run for another office,” but admitted that “things change weekly, month after month,” leaving the door open for potential Senate bids.
