by Samantha Hogan | November 26, 2019 | Ethics, Money, Politics, Transparency
Harold Mortimer, 22, pled guilty to a second OUI offense in September against the advice of the ‘Lawyer of the Day’ to hire an attorney to fight his case. Mortimer lost his license for three years and spent five days in jail. Photo by Samantha Hogan. In defense of...
by Samantha Hogan | November 20, 2019 | Ethics, Money, Politics, Transparency
Commission in the crosshairs Attorneys, criminal justice advocates and former prisoners share thoughts about the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services during marathon public hearing Don’t Miss Maine’s Important StoriesSubscribe to Pine Tree Watch today!...
by Samantha Hogan | November 14, 2019 | Ethics, Money, Politics, Transparency
The high cost of poor defense Potential over-billing and a lack of visibility into the hours worked by lawyers defending Maine’s poor have sparked multiple investigations of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services Don’t Miss Maine’s Important...
by Naomi Schalit | May 26, 2018 | Ethics
Photo by: AlexiusHoratius [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons LD 1750: A study in how special interests get their way in the Maine legislature The industrial wind lobby was not happy. Its plans to keep building hundreds of wind turbines in rural Maine were...
by Pine Tree Watch | November 6, 2017 | Ethics, Top Story
Pine Tree Watch releases second edition of online tool to research potential conflicts of interest AUGUSTA — They are bus drivers, fishermen, lawyers and cooks. The members of the 128th Maine Legislature — a “citizen legislature” in the truest definition of the term...
by Joshua F. Moore | August 30, 2017 | Elections, Ethics
Ethics Commission fines leading Republican senator $9K for campaign finance violations The Maine Ethics Commission imposed a $9,000 fine Wednesday on the second-highest ranking Republican in the Maine Senate, calling his political committees’ late filings, missing...
