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Maheu's life an amazing journey
by Outspoken on Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:43 am
Maheu's life an amazing journey
BY SCOTT MONROE
Staff Writer Morning Sentinel
It was April 1984 and Norman Boulet, 47, of Winslow, was on vacation with his wife in Las Vegas. While there, he had a heart attack.
One of Boulet's family members contacted Robert Maheu, originally from Waterville, and told him about Boulet's situation. Boulet and Maheu had known each other through family connections, but they were not close friends. That would soon change.
Maheu found a top-notch doctor within a few hours to perform open-heart surgery on Boulet. Maheu and his wife visited Boulet in the hospital several times after that, and Maheu later drove Boulet from his hotel to the airport.
"He knew high-powered people and when he talks, something moves," Boulet said in an interview this week. "That's how come I got close to Bob. I got to know him pretty good, and then every time he came to Maine we had lunch together. I was very grateful to him. He was very a nice gentleman, as far as I'm concerned."
He was a lot more than that. Maheu was well known as the chief aide to billionaire businessman Howard Hughes, engineering his business empire and changing the face of Las Vegas. Maheu had also been an FBI agent and a spy for the CIA, involved in international dealings and plots.
Maheu, who died Aug. 4 at age 90, was born and raised in Waterville. And although he went on to world renown, Maheu never lost his love of central Maine, and he frequently returned to Waterville to be with friends and family, according to those who knew him.
"His love was Maine and that was Waterville," Robert Maheu's son, Peter Maheu, said in an interview this week. "It was always his home, despite all his travels and all his adventures. That was his cement. That was his rock."
Peter Maheu is a managing member of Global Intelligence Network of Nevada, a company that assists in the business decisions of gaming manufacturers and suppliers, hotels and casinos, Indian nations and others.
Asked to describe his father, Peter Maheu recalled what one of his brothers said in a eulogy at the funeral: "'He was a gentleman and a gentle man,' which I thought was fairly accurate description."
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5340721.html
BY SCOTT MONROE
Staff Writer Morning Sentinel
It was April 1984 and Norman Boulet, 47, of Winslow, was on vacation with his wife in Las Vegas. While there, he had a heart attack.
One of Boulet's family members contacted Robert Maheu, originally from Waterville, and told him about Boulet's situation. Boulet and Maheu had known each other through family connections, but they were not close friends. That would soon change.
Maheu found a top-notch doctor within a few hours to perform open-heart surgery on Boulet. Maheu and his wife visited Boulet in the hospital several times after that, and Maheu later drove Boulet from his hotel to the airport.
"He knew high-powered people and when he talks, something moves," Boulet said in an interview this week. "That's how come I got close to Bob. I got to know him pretty good, and then every time he came to Maine we had lunch together. I was very grateful to him. He was very a nice gentleman, as far as I'm concerned."
He was a lot more than that. Maheu was well known as the chief aide to billionaire businessman Howard Hughes, engineering his business empire and changing the face of Las Vegas. Maheu had also been an FBI agent and a spy for the CIA, involved in international dealings and plots.
Maheu, who died Aug. 4 at age 90, was born and raised in Waterville. And although he went on to world renown, Maheu never lost his love of central Maine, and he frequently returned to Waterville to be with friends and family, according to those who knew him.
"His love was Maine and that was Waterville," Robert Maheu's son, Peter Maheu, said in an interview this week. "It was always his home, despite all his travels and all his adventures. That was his cement. That was his rock."
Peter Maheu is a managing member of Global Intelligence Network of Nevada, a company that assists in the business decisions of gaming manufacturers and suppliers, hotels and casinos, Indian nations and others.
Asked to describe his father, Peter Maheu recalled what one of his brothers said in a eulogy at the funeral: "'He was a gentleman and a gentle man,' which I thought was fairly accurate description."
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5340721.html
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