Investigation: LePage, education department threatened Good Will-Hinckley funding [View all]
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — A long-awaited report on how Gov. Paul LePage and the Maine Department of Education interfered in an employment contract between Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves and Good Will-Hinckley has found strong evidence that LePage took steps to withdraw state funding for a charter school for at-risk students.
The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee received the 27-page report Tuesday morning in Augusta from Beth Ashcroft, director of the nonpartisan Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability.
The purpose of the probe was to investigate whether LePage improperly threatened to withhold $530,000 in state funding for Good Will-Hinckley, an organization that among other things runs the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Fairfield, to force the firing of Eves.
Eves’ contract was rescinded by Good Will-Hinckley in June. LePage, who objected to Eves’ hiring because he said Eves was not qualified for the position, has publicly admitted that he threatened Hinckley’s board of directors. Eves has filed a civil lawsuit against LePage in which he accuses the governor of blackmail. The suit is still pending.
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