Payments Flowed In Attempt To Create Tax Credit Program

Agents for the investors who reaped $44.5 million in taxpayer dollars from the failed plan to save the Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket and other ventures aggressively lobbied state lawmakers in 2011 to approve the controversial tax credit program that set up the investors’ windfall. And the moneymen rewarded the lawmakers who were key to ushering the tax credit program into law. Advantage Capital Partners, Stonehenge Capital and Enhanced Capital, all based in Louisiana, spent a combined $20,000 lobbying lawmakers and Gov.