AUGUSTA — A complaint alleging misconduct by Kennebec and Somerset County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney has been dismissed.

Maloney faced allegations before the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar that she violated rules of conduct in her dealings regarding an Oakland woman who has alleged she was drugged and raped in a Waterville bar and authorities failed to properly investigate.

Pamela Boivin filed a complaint last year with the state Board of Overseers of the Bar, which oversees attorneys in Maine, alleging Maloney improperly reached out to Boivin’s friend who also worked for the Family Violence Project and offered to share confidential information about a criminal case against Boivin and the separate investigation into her alleged sexual assault.

Boivin alleged Maloney did so to bypass Boivin’s attorney and seek a plea deal with her, and to silence Boivin’s voluminous online criticism of authorities for not sufficiently investigating or prosecuting her alleged rape.

Police say they have found no evidence supporting Boivin’s allegations of rape.

Prosecutors aren’t allowed to contact defendants directly if they have an attorney representing them.

An initial investigation by a Board of Overseers committee last year determined there was probable cause that Maloney violated rules for professional conduct for attorneys in Maine and the board’s Grievance Commission should hold a hearing to consider disciplinary action against her.

Attorney Joseph Jabar, a former justice in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court who represented Maloney against the allegations, said the board dismissed the case after determining no rules violations took place.

“We’d been telling them (there was no rules violation) for a year and a half now, after putting her through the ringer,” the board finally dismissed the case, Jabar said. “We have maintained from the beginning that DA Maloney acted in compliance with the law.”

Jabar said the “unfounded complaint” against Maloney was brought against her when Maloney was running for state Attorney General and the charges were dismissed once the election was over. State legislators reelected Attorney General Aaron Frey.

Boivin said any suggestion her complaint was politically motivated is ludicrous. She said she was drugged and raped in April 2023 and she filed her complaint against Maloney in December 2023 when she found out what Maloney had done. Boivin said she had no idea Maloney would later announce, in November 2024, that she would run for attorney general.

Maloney, in an interview and in a motion filed with the Board of Overseers seeking to dismiss the case, said she did nothing wrong and only reached out to the woman at the Family Violence Project, whom Maloney described as meeting the definition of a “victim advocate,” because she thought she might be able to help Boivin cope with her alleged sexual assault.

She said she did not provide any confidential information to the woman, who declined Maloney’s request to intervene. Maloney said if the woman had agreed to serve as an advocate, she would have been allowed to have access to information about her case.

Boivin said the woman Maloney contacted is not a victim’s advocate and primarily works as a domestic abuse educator in schools. She suspects Maloney reached out to the educator because she and Boivin were friends.

Boivin alleged that Maloney hoped to silence her numerous online complaints about her being drugged and raped not being taken seriously by authorities. Boivin said her main goal in filing her complaints with the board was to raise awareness of not just her own rape, but also the reports she said she’s received since then that dozens of others have reported being raped in “rape rooms” at bars and restaurants in Waterville and not had their allegations property investigated by police.

Waterville Chief of Police William Bonney has said there was no evidence to support that there are rape rooms in Waterville. The owner of the tavern where Boivin says she was raped has denied any such incident happened there, and threatened legal action if Boivin continues to make such public accusations. Boivin said he did not sue her, despite her continuing to speak out.

Boivin has said she was drugged, raped and robbed on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, at a Waterville bar, and later was found by police in her car in a ditch, unable to tell them where she lived, answer questions, or follow simple commands, due to being drugged earlier.

Boivin was arrested that day on Route 139 in Fairfield after the Fiat she was driving was seen swerving. She was charged with operating under the influence, failing to stop, and refusing to sign a uniform summons and complaint, according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster. Lancaster said Boivin had not been sexually assaulted.

She eventually pleaded guilty to operating under the influence, with the other charges against her dismissed. No sexual assault case has been brought on her behalf.