Ex-legislator charged on referendum role

[MaineDem]

AUGUSTA, Maine — A former state lawmaker who took a first step last week toward launching a people´s veto challenge to Maine´s new term-limit law has been accused by state officials of improperly using his authority as a notary to administer oaths in connection with a previous referendum drive.

The Maine attorney general´s office went to Lewiston District Court last Friday to lodge a criminal complaint alleging four counts of false acknowledgment of oath, which are misdemeanor charges, against Stavros Mendros of Lewiston.

The allegations in the complaint date to November 2005 and involve initiative petitions in support of An Act to Authorize a Tribal Commercial Track and Slot Machines in Washington County.

The state charges that on four occasions Mendros "did willfully and falsely acknowledge the oath of a circulator" when the four petition circulators did not make their oaths in Mendros´ presence.

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8QAI0F80-191.html

Looks like Mendros has his name in the papers again.