Proceeds from property sales in bankruptcy proceedings surrounding Robert Nutting, Maine’s new Speaker of the House, cannot be collected by the State of Maine.
Inflated charges and failure to keep adequate records led to state's finding that Nutting's pharmacy over-billed the state $1.6 million, of which he failed to pay back $1.2 million after the pharmacy went bankrupt.
This is why the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting was asked to pay more than $36,000 for documents and what happened after our Maine journalism colleagues raised their eyebrows at the dollar amount.