POSTED WITHOUT FURTHER except to point out that as a two-time millionaire spoiler independent candidate for governor of Maine he twice helped get us the degenerate Paul LePage in office with less than a majority of the vote. So, of course, I hate him for that alone. Here's what it says in the Press Herald.
Eliot Cutler is facing a fifth accusation that he violated the terms of his probation, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
The disgraced two-time Maine gubernatorial candidate and convicted sex offender is accused of giving authorities incorrect passwords to his electronic devices, which are subject to searches.
Cutler, 79, was sentenced in 2023 to nine months in jail, followed by six years of probation, after he was convicted of possessing thousands of sexually explicit images of children. He was let out of jail two months before his scheduled release date for “good behavior.”
Since September, he has been accused several times of violating court-ordered conditions and remains in custody without bail at the Hancock County Jail.
Eliot Cutler to remain in Hancock County Jail without bail
Cutler’s attorney, Walter McKee, said Wednesday that Cutler denies the new allegations. He has also denied all past allegations of violating his release conditions.
Cutler is scheduled to appear in Hancock County Superior Court next month to address the allegations.
Cutler’s probation officer, Sam Payson, wrote in recent court filings that the passwords that Cutler provided for his electronic devices didn’t work, meaning a state police investigator could not access them.
He also accused Cutler of having encrypted files on a computer without permission.
Payson wrote that this is “another example of Mr. Cutler demonstrating that he has no intent of following his ordered conditions.” He again asked a judge to consider revoking his probation entirely.
Five frickin' violations? FIVE? I'd like to know how many poor people are in Maine jails for violating parole once, and for crimes a lot less serious than what Cutler was convicted of.
Update: I forgot to mention he's a prep (Deerfield Academy) to Harvard to Georgetown Law product. Yep, a lawyer felon an associate and partner of the the white shoe law firms. From his, probably self-curated Wiki page:
He then worked from 1980 to 1988 for the law firm Webster & Sheffield, focusing mostly on environmental and land use issues.
He was a founding partner of Cutler & Stanfield LLP, with fellow Webster & Sheffield associate Jeffrey Stanfield, which became the second-largest environmental law firm in the country, eventually merging that practice with international firm Akin Gump in 2000.
If ignorance of the law is no excuse, knowledge of the law should certainly be considered as compounding the crime. He should have gotten life without parole.
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