The University of Maine System’s Board of Trustees voted this week to remove the name of former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell from a building and a scholarship fund over his links to late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The board voted 9-5 Monday with one abstention to rename the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions on UMaine’s flagship campus in Orono as well as the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship, which funds one year of post-graduate studies at universities in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Mitchell, now 93, is mentioned more than 300 times in voluminous files related to the Epstein case that were released by the Department of...
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