💼 The home of several state agencies is being sold in an $18.5 million deal.
◉ The Central Maine Commerce Center in north Augusta, which houses the Maine Department of Public Safety, the Department of Labor and private companies, was sold in the largest investment deal in the capital city's recent history, according to the The Boulos Company, which brokered the sale.
◉ The 317,000-square-foot building on 40 acres has been under the same ownership group since 2004, when it was purchased for $4.5 million. The building will remain under the same management and this will be the new owner's first project in Maine.
❓A candidate can't explain why taxpayer-provided funds left a bank account.
◉ A 2022 legislative hopeful came forward to Maine's campaign finance regulator to say they do not know how three fraudulent payments were made from a bank account holding Clean Election money, according to a Maine Ethics Commission memo published Tuesday that does not name the candidate.
◉ Two of the entities that received the money are local, and the campaign did not use a debit card, commission staff says. At a meeting next week, commissioners will vote on whether to investigate the campaign's finances, a move that the candidate does not object to.
◉ "It is a matter of concern that someone caused these funds to be used for purposes unrelated to any political campaign," Jonathan Wayne, the commission's executive director, said in the memo. |
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