Embattled district attorney candidate says he's staying in race to get health insurance [View all]
The embattled Republican candidate for district attorney of Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties testified Friday he has not ended his bid for that office – despite his suspended law license – because the job’s health insurance would cover the cost of the psychiatric treatment he needs.
Seth Carey took the stand in Cumberland County Superior Court on the third and final day of testimony in a hearing on the five-count complaint filed against him by the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar.
The board is seeking a two-year suspension or disbarment of the 43-year-old Auburn lawyer.
Carey’s license, which already had been conditional stemming from a 2016 board complaint, was suspended April 30 after a Rumford judge handed down a protection from abuse order against Carey for allegedly sexually harassing and assaulting a woman whom he had briefly represented two years earlier and who had been living – at least part time – at his home.
“I need significant treatment and counseling,” Carey said under cross-examination Friday. “I don’t have the ability to do that now.”
Read more: https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/08/17/embattled-da-candidate-says-hes-staying-in-race-to-get-health-insurance/
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