Former Maine developer Michael Liberty accepts pardon from Trump
The criminal wire and securities fraud case against Liberty is now dead, but other legal challenges remain.
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Michael Liberty, center, leaves the federal district courthouse in Portland with attorneys Alfred Frawley IV, left, and Thima Mina, right, on March 14, 2019. Liberty has been accused of securities and wire fraud, but his acceptance of a pardon by former President Trump means his criminal case is now concluded. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Michael Liberty’s lawyers told a federal judge Tuesday that their client is accepting President Trump’s pardon, but a host of legal woes still loom for the former Portland developer.
Viewpoint: Presidential pardons and the case from Maine
By Paul Mills
President Trump’s recent pardoning marathon has shed new light on an often overlooked sphere of presidential authority. As one of the few powers that the White House can exercise without either Congressional or, so far at least, judicial oversight, it’s worth taking a look at how some of our other presidents have wielded this potent baton.
That the rich and powerful can sometimes bring both undue and embarrassing weight to bear on a president in such situations is perhaps best illustrated by the case of an internationally prominent business titan from Bath.
President Donald Trump’s recent pardoning marathon has shed new light on an often overlooked sphere of presidential authority. As one of the few powers which the White House can exercise without either Congressional or so far at least judicial oversight it’s worth taking a look at how some of our other presidents […]
President Trump’s recent pardoning marathon has shed new light on an often-overlooked sphere of presidential authority. As one of the few powers which the White House can exercise without either Congressional or – so far at least – judicial oversight, it’s worth taking a look at how some of our other presidents have wielded this […]
by Tim Clark
ALISON LANGLEY
BLACKJACK, a 33′ Friendship sloop built in 1900 by Wilbur Morse, sails in her home waters of Rockland, Maine. She was extensively restored by professionals and volunteers at the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, which is her new home.
The Maine sloop-boat, the sailing predecessor to the modern lobsterboat, is an icon of Maine’s maritime heritage. As a professional boatbuilder living and working in Maine who has a particular interest in historic workboats, I had always hoped that I might one day have an opportunity to build or restore one of these so-called Friendship sloops. In the summer of 2016, such an opportunity came my way in the most satisfying way I could imagine: I was asked to restore an original working sloop built by the most notable builder of the type, Wilbur Morse of Friendship, Maine.