Workers' comp board member resigns
A Portland man has resigned his seat on the Maine Workers' Compensation Board three weeks after he pleaded guilty to a second assault charge in 13 years.
In a letter to Gov. John Baldacci sent Thursday morning, Anthony Monfiletto, 54, said he was stepping down from the seven-member board for "personal reasons," effective immediately, according to the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting in Hallowell. Monfiletto, a former Bath Iron Works employee, was charged in mid-April in Farmington District Court with punching a man in a late-night bar fight at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort in October 2009. Monfiletto was attending a conference. He was also convicted of an identical assault charge in 1998 stemming from a case in West Bath and fined $500, according to the journalism nonprofit.
David Farmer, the governor's spokesman, said Baldacci had accepted the letter and would be nominating a replacement. Baldacci must select a new representative from a list of four names provided to him by the AFL-CIO, and the nominee must first be approved by the Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Labor as well as confirmed by the state Senate, which would likely happen this summer.
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