Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills found herself cornered last month in Washington, D.C., when a video surfaced showing her refusing to answer blunt questions about past cocaine allegations.
“What the f—?” Mills shot back when asked if “sniffing cocaine at work” is a “human right.” She kept walking and ignored a follow-up about the inflation-adjusted cost of an eight-ball.
The video was shared with Fox News Digital just as new reporting called into question Mills’ decades-old defense that a federal drug probe into her was politically motivated.
Back in 1990, Mills — then a Maine district attorney — was investigated by the DEA, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maine, and Maine’s Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement (BIDE) after a drug suspect alleged she used cocaine.
Mills has long claimed the probe was a smear campaign because she was a Democrat and vocal critic of BIDE’s tactics. At the time, she and other district attorneys had slammed the agency for focusing on low-level drug busts to inflate stats.
In a 1991 interview, Mills warned, “Maine apparently has a secret police force at work that can ruin the reputation of any who opposes it.”
But a newly surfaced 1995 DOJ memo appears to refute her claims. The document, addressed to the then-deputy attorney general (Merrick Garland was a top deputy at the time), states there was no misconduct by federal or state officials during the investigation.
No charges were ever filed against Mills. While she sued a reporter for libel over a leaked grand jury story, that suit was ultimately tossed. Despite involvement from then-Sen. Joe Biden, who pushed for further DOJ review, the case was quietly closed — until now.
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