Maine state Rep. Randall Hall (R-Wilton) is facing multiple forgery charges after an Oxford County grand jury indicted him on Wednesday for allegedly forging signatures required to qualify for taxpayer-funded campaign cash under the Maine Clean Election Act (MCEA).
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The indictment accuses Hall of forging ten signatures on MCEA qualifying contribution forms while testifying on a different form that the signatures were valid.
Under the MCEA, legislative candidates can renounce private campaign funding and instead take taxpayer money to pay for their campaign expenses. To qualify, a candidate must gather 60 contributions of five dollars along with the qualifying contribution forms.
Following the indictment, House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) asked Rep. Hall to immediately resign from the legislature, apparently ignoring the “innocent until proven guilty” standard in the American judicial system.
Hall is currently serving his fourth consecutive term in the legislature and qualified for the MCEA in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
The Maine Wire reached out to Hall for comment, but he did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
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Didn’t some guy in Waldoboro get busted for the same thing ?
How could anybody be so stupid as think the democrats won’t stop at anything to discredit destroy their Republican opponents .
Very Very Very poor judgement Mr Hall .
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!
Guilty until proven innocent…. Dems jump on that…. I wonder if Janet and her brother would happen to be Guilty until proven innocent… ? Sadly we won’t know that until Doge finds the little discrepancies… there are much bigger problems to deal with in the state of immigrants Maine until Tom Homan comes to our border…
I hope Hall told Fecteau to go f*ck himself. What an a**hole.
It isn’t Halls Fault that Fecteau couldn’t find a young boy to molest