Court Sanctions Former York County Probate Judge

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published June 20, 2017 at 1:41 PM EDT

Maine's highest court is sanctioning former York County Probate Judge Robert Nadeau for judicial misconduct.

Nadeau, who last year lost a bid for re-election, has been sanctioned twice before. In a decision on Tuesday the Supreme Judicial Court considered several more recent allegations, from blacklisting former associates from serving as court-appointed lawyers to inappropriately soliciting campaign donations.

Saying previous sanctions had not changed Nadeau's "intemperate" behavior, the court fined him $5,000 and suspended him from practicing law for 2 years.

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A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.

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