Gordon MacDonald must resign in the wake of the Woodlock Conviction – he is immoral and unfit.
Youth Detention Center employee, James Woodlock, was convicted this week on 2 of three charges for being an accomplice to the sexual assault of David Meehan, who first came forward about his abuse at the center in 2017.
https://www.wmur.com/article/former-ydc-woodlock-conviction-92925/68119815
Gordon MacDonald was Attorney General at the time David Meehan first spoke of the abuse he suffered, in which James Woodlock was involved. That was over 8 years ago. David Meehan and dozens of others filed a class action lawsuit against the State about the abuse they suffered at the YDC. Gordon MacDonald dismissed it for “victim negligence”. The NHCADSV, which claims to be about victims’ rights, said nothing at the time.
As New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, MacDonald must resign. He has already been disqualified from hearing David Meehan’s appeal to try to secure the jury award from his civil case of $38 million vs the State’s cap of $475,000.
As AG, Gordon MacDonald defied a Superior Court judge’s ruling that the list of corrupt police officers (the “Laurie List”) should be made public. Then he and Governor Sununu (who appointed him as AG and picked him as Supreme Court Chief Justice) decided that police officer names should remain confidential even after they’ve been placed on the Laurie list until they have had time to appeal this behind closed doors.
The result? Laurie List office James F McLaughlin (who Gordon MacDonald worked with on the Diocese of Manchester and the St Paul’s School cases) got a “do-over,” and now the AG’s office states that he’s not on the Laurie list. How convenient.
Gordon MacDonald’s former partner at Nixon Peabody is David Vicinanzo, David Meehan’s attorney. Until recently, the Secretary of State listed Gordon MacDonald on one account at Nixon Peabody for a company managed by Gordon Humphrey. Since I have spoken up about this, that listing has now disappeared. There needs to be transparency about whether or not he has a financial interest in Nixon Peabody and, therefore, in the civil settlements obtained by David Vicinanzo for YDC abuse. The settlement money comes out of the taxpayers’ pockets. So does Gordon MacDonald’s salary.
While MacDonald slow-walked any kind of criminal investigation into the YDC allegations made by David Meehan in 2017, he fast-tracked a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School, which was lobbied for by Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV and City of Concord Council.
Emails from his office (Jane Young) to David Vicinanzo during this time indicate that Vicinanzo represented “most if not all” of the administrators at St Paul’s School as well as “E” who I believe is “E.W.” – a 15 year old minor at St Paul’s whose mother made a complaint to police and the school about Andrew Thomson’s (18) unlawful sexual relationship with her daughter which was revealed in Thomson’s emails.
The Attorney General’s office informed David Vicinanzo of his conflicts of interest but let him continue anyway. Vicinanzo’s additional conflict of interest was not mentioned – the fact that he is legal counsel for the NHCADSV as well who got a contract out of the settlement agreement.
Vicinanzo successfully petitioned Merrimack County DA’s office and the AG’s office to block the release of the Grand Jury criminal investigation report to the public, despite Gordon MacDonald’s promises. Now the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office claims it can’t release that report because it would be in defiance of a superior court order.
That didn’t prevent MacDonald from ignoring a Superior Court ruling when it came to corrupt police officers, however. Clearly, his primary goal has been to prevent the public from discovering the corruption going on within the AG’s office, the police department, and behind these grand jury criminal investigations that reveal no crimes, just lawsuits and settlements. These investigations provide jobs for lawyers but lack transparency for the public. They end up being extortion rackets with no public benefit.
According to Supreme Court Associate Justice, Barbara Hantz-Marconi, she had a conversation with MacDonald who advised her that it was fine for her to talk to Governor Sununu when Hantz-Marconi’s husband was about to face criminal charges. According to MacDonald’s conversation with investigators, with his attorney, Erin Creegan (now NH US Attorney) present, he doesn’t recall having any such conversation.
Now he doesn’t want to testify under oath at Barbara Hantz-Marconi’s trial. If he didn’t have a conversation with her, then why does he have a problem saying that under oath? If he did have a conversation with her, then he lied when he was interviewed by the State’s investigators about the Hantz-Marconi incident. He can’t just hope the ball gets kicked down the road until Hantz-Marconi turns 70 and thinks it will all go away.
Bizarrely, and perhaps coincidentally, Gordon MacDonald is Chair of the Board of Directors for some condominiums (Mountain Highlands Condominium Association, Inc.) that are literally next door to Amanda Grady Sexton’s address in Concord.
Coincidentally, Amanda Grady Sexton and Adam Sexton paid off the remainder of their mortgage a few months after a settlement for Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth, for which the NHCADSV was a beneficiary. Gordon MacDonald’s office had announced a criminal inquiry into Dartmouth, but the AG’s office has no records of this that are available under Right to Know, leading me to believe that there was no criminal inquiry, just an excuse to file a suit against Dartmouth and extort several million without due process. Professor David Bucci committed suicide in the wake of that suit.
There’s never been an inquiry, but the New York Times called him a victim of “scorched-earth #MeToo legal strategy”. He was, he was the victim of pretrial publicity that Gordon MacDonald’s pal, Chuck Douglas and Amanda Grady Sexton and her pal, Steven J Kelly were using and had written about in an article called “Pretrial Publicity Friend or Foe, Advice from the Experts Amanda Grady Sexton and Steven Kelly.” There must be an inquiry into the settlement of this lawsuit and where that money went because it’s not documented on the NHCADSV’s IRS 990, nor WISE’s IRS 990. Did Gordon MacDonald get a kickback through Nixon Peabody, his law firm, which represents the beneficiaries NHCADSV and WISE?
Amanda Grady Sexton and Gordon MacDonald worked on the St Paul’s School Grand Jury investigation, the Dartmouth investigation and Marsy’s Law, paid for by California billionaire Henry Nicholas – a felon who took an Alford plea for 5 counts of drug trafficking. Chuck Douglas was involved in all three as well. AND he was the Chair of the Judicial Selection Committee.
Why didn’t Gordon MacDonald’s criminal investigation go anywhere? For the same reason that he told Concord Police and Merrimack County DA that he wasn’t interested in criminally prosecuting any of David Vicinanzo’s administration and faculty clients at St Paul’s School? In other words, it was more lucrative for his buddies to get rich from civil suits against St Paul’s School using the Grand Jury criminal investigation leaks to his pals, who then supported his advancement to the Supreme Court. He knew the game well because he was involved in it for the Diocese of Manchester Grand Jury investigation ordered by AG Phil McLaughlin. He settled hundreds of suits, regardless of whether or not they came from credible accusations. He knew that some of them didn’t and admitted as such but wanted “quick settlements”.
If you are not looking for criminal charges, then why spend so much public money and resources and hire so many attorneys for a “criminal investigation”? He completely misled the public and sucked up tax dollars to enrich his friends, who would help advance his career to the Supreme Court.
No wonder Amanda Grady Sexton went all out to block ABC/GMA from airing Amy Robach’s interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019 as the Dartmouth settlement was in progress. Had it aired, one wonders if she would have been able to pay off her mortgage and whether Gordon MacDonald would’ve been able to purchase a condo down the street from her.
There’s been a fair amount of speculation about the muted media around the Woodlock YDC conviction. The Concord Monitor and the NHCADSV have been curiously silent. So has David Vicinanzo. It would appear none of them want this in the news with their names attached.
Legislators need to serve their constituents who are footing the bill for the YDC investigation, trials and payouts. Nothing short of a full investigation into Gordon MacDonald and his co-conspirators will be enough. They are co-conspirators – this becomes obvious when you read the Right to Know emails that I obtained from the Attorney General’s Office with those named above.
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