1995 DOJ memo contradicts Maine governor’s claim cocaine investigation was politically motivated

First on the fox: The Democratic Governor of Democratic State, Janet Mills, has for years rejected the investigation of her alleged use of cocaine as a political motive, but a The newly discovered memo was obtained By Fox News Digital has contradicted its claim for decades.

In early 1990s, the US Public Prosecutor’s Office (USAO) in Main, the Anti -Narcotics Administration (DEA) and the Maine State Office for International Medicines (BIDE) achieved mills, then the lawyer for the sitting area in Maine, after a drug suspect accused them of using cocaine.

The investigation was eventually dropped without charges, but Mills confirmed that the investigation had no advantage and that it was a political targeting for its democratic affiliation and its criticism of race. In 1990, she and two other provincial lawyers in Maine criticized a cliff to amplify the numbers of detention by enforcing excessive criminals of drug criminals at the low level.

“It is scary,” Mills told Portland Press Herald In November 1991. “Maine seems to have a secret police force in the work that can destroy the reputation of anyone who opposes it.”

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The governor of Mina Janet Mills is spoken during the northeastern rulers and heads of Canadian prime minister, a discussion on June 16, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

A note in March 1995 from the US Department of Professional Responsibility Office (Doj/OPR), directed to the Deputy Prosecutor, which was Merik Garland as a service colleague, and revealed that there were no powers from the Attorney General or the government, discovered by Fox News Digl

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According to the Ministry of Justice Memorandum, WCSH-TV stated in December 1990 that MLLS had been investigated by the Federal Grand Persons of Drug use, noting the sources of law enforcement. Mills filed a lawsuit against this reporter for defamation and slander. The report also prompted Melz’s lawyer to demand a major investigation into the jury, on the pretext that “the press received a leak from Berge Law enforcement officials.”

The results of the defamation and defamation suit are no longer available. The case schedule showed that the records were disposed of in 2015 according to the policy. However, a 1991 Lyston Sun Cornal article It seems to be mentioned that the efforts made to end the rumors of the drug investigation “were presented by the judge.

In January 1992, then. Joe BidenD-del. , I intervened and asked to investigate the doj/OPR allegations that the state of Maine “USA refused to investigate the leakage of the Grand jury” and that the lawyers had participated in “intimidating and coercing witnesses” during the investigation.

The then, Joe Biden, to the left, and the then-law Merik Garland at a ceremony to honor the courage medal in 2021-2022 in the Eastern Chamber of the White House in Washington on May 17, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

These concerns initially raised Patrick Parades and N. Paul Gauvreau, the chairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Judicial Committee of the Legislative Council in Main, in a letter sent to Sen at the time. George Mitchell, Men. The letter suggested that the allegations involved in the state of Maine “exceeded the relevant state agency.”

In the end, no charges were charged against Mills for its alleged use of cocaine.

But the Ministry of Justice also found that all Melz’s allegations were “baseless from work”, including allegations that they were politically targeted, that investigators had requested a false testimony, that witnesses have been forced or threatened and that Al -Azzaf customers are leaking the information of the major jury to the press.

In 1995, the Ministry of Justice concluded: “The United States of America in Maine conducted an appropriate investigation of serious allegations; no misconduct of any kind can be attributed to any member of this position.”

While the Ministry of Justice exposed Mills’s allegations, allegations against it were rejected as a political motive throughout the investigation.

Democratic Governor Janet Mills said that the investigation of its alleged use of cocaine was with political motives. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

According to the memo, Mills announced publicly that it was a victim of a smudging campaign “in 1991.

“I would like to say that it is a coincidence that this investigation started and was leaked to the press shortly after my public comments about the non -accountability in Bide,” Mills He said in the same year.

Mills also claimed that he puts “a very bad precedent when the Public Prosecutor should look at his shoulder every time you put a person in prison and wonder whether this person will find an audience in the street in the playing office or on the road in the American lawyer’s office to say dirty things about you.”

Fox News Digital contacts with Milz’s office several times to comment but he did not receive a response.

Earlier this year, Mills accused the president Donald Trump From the leadership of the “Political Completed Investigation” in Maine Ministry of Education.

During a meeting of the National Conservative Society (NGA) at the White House in February, Mills and Trump publicly erupted on biological men playing in women’s sports.

Earlier this year, Mills accused President Donald Trump of leading a “political investigation” in the Ministry of Education in Main. (Getty Images)

Trump The mills must comply With his executive order prohibited Sexual athletes From the competition in the sports and women’s sports, or “you will not get any federal financing,” she answered, “Sanrak in court”, which is exactly where the case was linked.

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Republican Senator Susan Collins for a long time in 2026, and with the limited period of Milz next year, a competitive democratic candidate for the Collins Challenge will be.

Mill Referred to April She did not “plan to run for another office,” but she admitted that “things change from week to week, from month to month,” leaving the door open to the possible display of the Senate.