{"id":124930,"date":"2026-02-06T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124930\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:50:29","slug":"former-u-s-senator-george-mitchell-resigns-from-mitchell-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124930\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell resigns from Mitchell Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Maine (WABI) &#8211; Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell has resigned from his role as honorary chair of the Mitchell Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitchellinstitute.org\/message-from-mitchell-institute-executive-committee\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mitchellinstitute.org\/message-from-mitchell-institute-executive-committee\/\">organization<\/a> said Thursday they accepted that resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement, the institute says they \u201cagree that this is an appropriate time to initiate a thoughtful, responsible process to consider a potential name change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The announcement comes after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/02\/02\/us-ireland-alliance-removes-sen-george-mitchells-name-scholarship\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2026\/02\/02\/us-ireland-alliance-removes-sen-george-mitchells-name-scholarship\/\"> recently unsealed court documents <\/a>related to Jeffrey Epstein were released last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 300 references to Mitchell appear in over three million pages of files released by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A spokesperson for Mitchell told WABI, \u201cat no time did Senator Mitchell observe, suspect, or have any knowledge of Epstein engaging in illegal or inappropriate conduct with underage women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mitchell, a Democrat from Maine, served in the U.S. Senate from 1980 to 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more than 30 years, the Mitchell Institute has helped Maine students pursue higher education by awarding scholarships to dozens of graduating students at public schools in Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can read the board\u2019s full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitchellinstitute.org\/message-from-mitchell-institute-executive-committee\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mitchellinstitute.org\/message-from-mitchell-institute-executive-committee\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine (WABI) &#8211; Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell has resigned from his role as honorary chair of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[52565,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-124930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-george-mitchell","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}