I was forwarded the attached 1988 report on Laurie List, PD James F. McLaughlin, last week.
William Dow and Amanda Palmieri of Keene did not forward this to me when I filed a right-to-know request a couple of years ago. Amanda Palmieri was present during the secret hearings in 2024 when James F McLaughlin was removed from the Laurie List. She authorized what was given to me and what was withheld.
When you read the attached, which she withheld, you should be ashamed that anyone ever let James F McLaughlin anywhere near children in sex crimes cases. He is a dishonest pervert who went on to sexualize minors in U.S. v Paul Gamache, all the while fabricating stories about others which would be proven untrue but which the State decided to ignore, favoring this sick man.
James F McLaughlin was hired for the St Paul’s School investigation, and he received a lifetime achievement award in 2016 at the same ceremony that Concord PD Julie Curtin received an award for her work in the St Paul’s School & Owen Labrie investigation. Curtin worked under McLaughlin, I believe, for the St Paul’s Grand Jury investigation, which involved obtaining school files without a warrant.
In 2020, John Scippa forwarded my concerns about Julie Curtin to the AG’s office. Associate AG Jane Young informed me that Deputy AG Geoff Ward would respond. He did not. Then he deleted the files of 28 police officers while simultaneously communicating with Councilor Amanda Grady-Sexton, who was deeply involved in the St Paul’s investigation and the criminal trial of Owen Labrie. She also worked with Julie Curtin, the prosecutors, and the media.
Despite numerous letters to Concord City Council starting in 2019/20, the City decided to ignore me completely until very recently. But Councilor Grady Sexton did bother to obtain my private information the moment I wrote to the LEACT commission in 2020, and this coincided with her communications with Geoff Ward.
The city’s counsel at Shaheen & Gordon was given my private information so that they could then threaten me with a defamation suit on behalf of Councilor Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV, which is not autonomous from either the Concord City Council or the AG’s office.
Police Standards and Training have now come up with the excuse that because the concerning events involving Julie Curtin are earlier than 2023, they have no jurisdiction. Concord’s Solicitor claims Internal Affairs policies changed on December 6, 2023, but can’t provide any documentation to show that, nor can police standards and training. Regardless, there is ample material evidence of Curtin’s misconduct, some of it documented by the AG acknowledging the failure to follow protocols in the St Paul’s and Lacy Crawford investigations.
In light of the attached document, which has been withheld for decades, in light of the most recent excuses by Concord City Council and Police Standards & Training regarding Julie Curtin’s records, it is becoming extremely obvious that there is a cover-up going on. And the question is, who is ordering it and why?
We know why. James F. McLaughlin was involved in a kids-for-cash business in which private attorneys and employees (e.g., Sylvia Gale) at DCYF were complicit. James F McLaughlin taught other police his techniques at least as late as April 2014, per records I have found.
Julie Curtin has quite a history of dishonesty, and yet she works in the AG’s office and for the Diocese. James F. McLaughlin was the investigator for the Diocese, and there are records that as far back as 2002, Father Edward Arsenault admitted that his investigation techniques were shady.
Julie Curtin appears to be McLaughlin’s protege and she too referred prospective victims to civil attorneys after she unlawfully obtained files without warrants and cold-called alumni of St Paul’s School, persuading them they could be victims for cash rewards, just like McLaughlin did.
AG MacDonald and Associate AG Jane Young were well aware of this practice, I believe, but also financially benefited from it. Edward Arsenault was also aware of this practice but benefited from it, as did David Vicinanzo, Chuck Douglas, Shaheen & Gordon, and a few other lawyers. Members of the Concord City Council were also aware of and complicit in this practice, I believe. These were also instrumental in covering it up in 2019.
Concord PD worked with State criminalist Kevin McMahon, knowing that he had a disciplinary record, but failing to mention that to the defendants (Brady violation).
If the City Councils, Police Standards & Training, the AG’s office, and law firms collude, that is called racketeering. It is a federal crime.
There is ample evidence and multiple documents to prove racketeering. Ironically, AG Phil McLaughlin’s office claimed it didn’t have the resources to investigate racketeering when a bill was introduced in the late 1990s addressing it. But he had plenty of resources to hire Jim Rosenberg and James F. McLaughlin for the Diocese investigation, which yielded 250 settlements but no criminal charges against Bishop McCormick or Edward Arsenault (who later pleaded guilty to fraud).
On the 10th anniversary of the Diocese investigation, which yielded 250 settlements, the NHCADSV hired Brian Harlow to expand its business. He was the first victim solicited by Jim Rosenberg (who ironically now sits on Concord’s ethics board). St Paul’s School became the new business for the NHCADSV while it ignored sex abuse in the state’s youth facilities and jails.
Dartmouth College and Phillips Exeter Academy were targeted too, but in both cases, it always ended up in settlements and a deal for the NHCADSV or its crisis centers.
But what are those exactly? Concord police don’t have a contract with THRIVE; the info on their door is not current, and the victims’ advocates are poorly trained. Recent reports show that THRIVE is not what it purports to be and is understaffed with out-of-date phone numbers for contacts.
Of course, Brian Harlow now has his own non- profit upstairs from the NHCADSV, which is also cozy with Concord PD, which has a number of Laurie list names blacked out.
Both Brian Harlow and Councilor Grady Sexton jumped to endorse Gordon MacDonald for the Supreme Court. MaCDonald had wasted too many tax dollars as AG fighting the exposure of the Laurie list, and too many as Chief Justice on lawyers for himself because he didn’t want to testify under oath at Barbara Hantz-Marconi’s trial and wanted to go around AG Formella to Governor Ayotte re: Dianne Martin. Let’s not forget that when AGMa Donald dismissed YDC victims for “ victim negligence “, the NHCADSV remained completely silent. They are the ones who get $4.7 million per year from DCYF, and they are the contact for PREA.
The police and City Council cover-ups are dangerous, endanger lives, and are a supreme waste and abuse of our taxpayer dollars, not to mention the violations of constitutional rights that go without punishment.
