By TED COHEN/PATCH.COM
A former two-time unsuccessful gubernatorial Maine candidate has been nabbed in a child-porn scandal.
Eliot Cutler was jailed on four felony counts of possessing child porn.
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Cutler was later freed on $50,000 bail pending trial.
The multi-millionaire political independent who broke from the Democrat party lost gubernatorial bids in 2010 and 2014.
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Cutler was a lifetime Democrat until he and the party broke with each other for undisclosed reasons.
Dem-party stalwarts still blame him for spoiling two elections they say handed the corner office to a Republican.
Cops say when they showed up at Cutler's house with a search warrant he admitted to them in front of his wife that they would find child porn on his computers.
Cutler's lawyers have so far not commented on the charges.
