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Category: Government Oversight Committee

MPBN: Subpoenas Issued in Maine Document Shredding Scandal

Posted: February 24, 2014

By Patty Wight Read more here Several officials of the Maine Center for Disease Control are being subpoenaed to appear before the Legislature's...

Government Oversight Committee Subpoenas CDC Officials, Documents

Posted: February 21, 2014

Officials to testify about shredding scandal AUGUSTA -- The Maine Legislature’s bipartisan Government Oversight Committee on Friday voted...

Bangor Daily News: State-hired lawyers ask lawmakers to suspend CDC shredding investigation

Posted: February 12, 2014

By Scott Thistle Read more here AUGUSTA, Maine — Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee on Tuesday were asked to suspend their...

Kennebec Journal: Maine CDC officials duck legislative panel’s inquiry on shredding

Posted: February 12, 2014

By Steve Mistler All five decline to answer questions from an oversight committee about controversial health grant awards. Subpoenas may be next....

MPBN: Maine Lawmakers Scrutinize CDC Document Shredding Order

Posted: January 10, 2014

By Patty Wight Read more here The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention was scrutinized at a public hearing today for allegedly ordering...

Bangor Daily News: DHHS kept critical internal CDC review hidden

Posted: December 26, 2013

By Lindsay Tice Read more here An internal review last spring by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services uncovered some of the very same...

Bangor Daily News: State investigation finds ‘manipulation,’ other problems in CDC grant awards

Posted: December 13, 2013

By Lindsay Tice Read more here AUGUSTA, Maine — A state investigation has found a host of problems with the way the Maine Centers for Disease...

Portland Press Herald: Maine CDC shredded documents justifying grant awards

Posted: December 13, 2013

By Steve Mistler Read more here Investigators find evidence that the award to at least one program was manipulated and that records justifying...

MPBN: State Probe: Maine CDC Workers Ordered to Destroy Documents

Posted: December 13, 2013

By Mal Leary Read more here The Legislature's Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability - or OPEGA - says that some staff at the...

INVESTIGATION RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN CDC SHREDDING INCIDENT

Posted: December 12, 2013

Lawmakers troubled by lack of transparency and documentation AUGUSTA--Following an independent investigation into allegations that public documents...