The Maine Attorney General’s Office is no longer defending the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in a federal whistle-blower lawsuit brought by a former Maine Center for Disease Control division director. DHHS, which oversees the CDC, has two new lawyers. And as the lawsuit continues, computer hard drives have been taken from several […]
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Former director says FBI investigating Maine CDC
Sharon Leahy-Lind said Friday in an interview with the Sun Journal that she has “fully cooperated with the FBI” while investigators there look into issues at the CDC. A spokesman for the CDC said he was unaware of an FBI investigation. A spokesman for the FBI said he could neither confirm nor deny an agency […]
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Defendants in Maine CDC lawsuit seek partial dismissal
Defendants named in a federal lawsuit filed by a former division director at the Maine Center for Disease Control are seeking to dismiss three of the complaint’s eight counts. Sharon Leahy-Lind has said her bosses at Maine CDC ordered her to shred public documents and harassed and discriminated against her when she refused. She filed […]
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CDC director who made document-shredding allegations resigns
Sharon Leahy-Lind, the state agency director who said her bosses at the Maine Center for Disease Control ordered her to shred public documents and harassed and discriminated against her when she refused, has resigned. In a statement released through her lawyer Wednesday afternoon, Leahy-Lind said her job has been “impossible to do” since she filed […]