report: Epstein files link Dem. Gov Janet Mills to cover for drug & child trafficking?
https://www.themainewire.com/2026/02/epstein-files-maine-gov-janet-mills-accused-of-child-abuse-cover-up-cocaine-trafficking-in-newly-released-sdny-documents/
The records related to Gov. Mills and other figures in Maine politics include a detailed tip submitted to the Southern District of New York (SDNY) following the 2020 arrest of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. An anonymous tipster alleges that Mills was “instrumental” in covering up child sexual abuse and was “credibly named” in cocaine trafficking.
The tipster appears to have a deep familiarity with Maine politics and powerful figures from Maine political history.
That includes a former Maine State Police Chief Andrew Demers, who served for 25 years and was later arrested for sexually abusing a child, and Maine’s former FBI Bureau chief, who went to jail for raping a 10-year-old girl.
Although the DOJ attempted to redact the tipster’s information, contextual clues and poorly redacted URLs point toward Lori Handrahan. Handrahan has a Ph.D., is a professor in Washington, and spent time as a child in both New Sharon and Sorrento, Maine. She’s also an author and a prominent anti-child trafficking activist.
According to Handrahan, Demers was influential in stopping child sexual exploitation investigations targeting some of Maine’s most influential figures, including former U.S. Sen. Bill Cohen (R-Maine), who served as Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton.
“Every one of the cases that [Demers] shut down, including Bill Cohen’s, related to child sex abuse should have been re-opened,” Handrahan said.
According to the email, Handrahan alleges that the FBI’s Kenoyer was protected by a judge — Donald Alexander — who also protected trial attorney Michael Waxman.
Waxman was the attorney for Igor Malenko, who had been married to Handrahan and had gained custody of their young daughter following a messy divorce.
“Maine’s current Governor Janet Mills (who grew up with me-her mother was my high school English teacher) has been instrumental in the crimes against my daughter and I and in protecting Waxman/Malenko,” Handrahan said. “She has also been credibly named as involved in cocaine trafficking.”
Handrahan declined to comment further on her allegations during a text message exchange.
The broad-ranging and conspiratorial nature of the allegations are difficult to substantiate independently; however, news archive records verify much of what Handrahan told the SDNY.
It's just 1 person, but Trump was accused & tried on less.
& it goes on. old Clinton buddies come up.
[old Maine Sen.] Mitchell, the former Senate Majority Leader during the administration of former President Bill Clinton — another man with infamous and well-documented links to Epstein, — has seen his reputation increasingly scrutinized following reports from The Maine Wire and other outlets highlighting his documented friendship with Epstein and his appearance on flight logs for Epstein’s private jet.
...his impeccable reputation — as well as his ties to Clinton and Epstein — were called into question in 2019, when Giuffre testified in a sworn deposition that Mitchell was among the men she was ordered to have sex with by Maxwell.
“I want you to tell me a single time that you recall Ghislaine Maxwell using the words to you and directing you to go have sex with another person –,” an attorney asked Giuffre, according to the transcript.
“They instructed me to go to George Mitchell,” Giuffre replied, naming former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and model Jean Luc Brunel in the same answer.
