{"id":1406068,"date":"2022-03-28T23:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406068"},"modified":"2022-03-28T23:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:14:41","slug":"democratic-donor-former-gubernatorial-candidate-eliot-cutler-arrested-on-child-porn-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-donor-former-gubernatorial-candidate-eliot-cutler-arrested-on-child-porn-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Donor, Former Gubernatorial Candidate Eliot Cutler Arrested On Child Porn Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-donor-former-gubernatorial-candidate-eliot-cutler-arrested-on-child-porn-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A two-time Independent Maine gubernatorial candidate and major Democratic donor was arrested Friday by the Maine State Police after search warrants were served on his two Maine homes.<\/p>\n<p>Eliot Cutler was arrested for being in possession of child pornography at his home in Brooklin on March 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maine-child-porn-democrat-donor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler was charged with four counts of possession of unlawful sexually explicit material of a minor under 12 but was released after posting his $50,000 bail, according to Fox. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/josh-hawley-judge-jackson-child-porn-offender-scotus-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Is He The Victim?\u2019: Sen. Josh Hawley Presses Judge Jackson For \u2018Apologizing\u2019 To Child Porn Offender)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hancock County District Attorney Matthew Foster said there may be additional charges filed against Culter after the authorities finish reviewing the material obtained by the search warrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arrests-maine-portland-paul-lepage-0b87c5dede0baf91bbb4d00798a161f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> The Associated Press. The search warrants covered alleged crimes from December through March and authorities are still reviewing the material, Foster said, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Culter worked for former President Jimmy Carter and for Democratic Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie. He also allegedly donated regularly to Democratic Party candidates including Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills\u2019 2022 reelection campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mainegop\/status\/1507475951029993473?s=20&#038;t=hypLRVETe-IglNjbQKY5ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> the Republican Party of Maine.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Recipients of Cutler cash include:<\/p>\n<p>Janet Mills<br \/>Jared Golden<br \/>Joe Biden<br \/>Bernie Sanders<br \/>Barack Obama<br \/>Angus King<br \/>Chellie Pingree<br \/>The NH, WI, OH, CO, IA, VA, NV, and FL Dem state parties<br \/>The DNC<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mepolitics?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mepolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maine GOP (@mainegop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mainegop\/status\/1507475952783306753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cutler and his wife gave Mills\u2019 2022 reelection\u00a0campaign $3,450 apiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralmaine.com\/2022\/03\/28\/mills-gives-back-campaign-donations-from-eliot-cutler-in-light-of-recent-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Central Maine. Mills\u2019 campaign spokesperson, Alexandra Raposo, announced the donations made by the couple were donated to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault organization, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Raposo said Mills was shocked to hear about the nature of Cutler\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike people across Maine, the governor was stunned and appalled by the news,\u201d Raposo said in an email to Central Maine. \u201cExploitation of children \u2014 the most innocent and vulnerable among us \u2014 is despicable and a fundamental violation of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Culter resigned from his position on the board of student outreach group, the Lerner Foundation, on March 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lernerfoundation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Lerner Foundation Executive Director Don Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d to learn about the charges levied against Cutler, Carpenter said in a statement on the foundation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his former role on the Board of Directors, Eliot was involved in high-level strategy and governance and did not directly interface with students who participated in grant funded programming,\u201d the group\u2019s statement read. \u201cHis relationship with the Lerner Foundation terminated as of Wednesday, March 23, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-time Independent Maine gubernatorial candidate and major Democratic donor was arrested Friday by the Maine State Police after search warrants were served on his two Maine homes.Eliot Cutler was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}