Dear Attorney General John Formella,
As a result of the recent news regarding Harmony Montgomery and Elijah Lewis; the report from the Office of Child Advocate regarding the abuse of children under State Care;
The lawsuits against the Sununu Youth Detention Center; Anna Carrigan v NH Lawsuit regarding the abuse of children in NH State care; the testimony of a female teen witness in NH v Griffin Furlotte about police and public official bullying, stalking, lying and abuse, it is beyond time for a serious investigation involving public and federal investigators into what is going on in New Hampshire.
This is about child safety and the abuse of children by public officials and state agencies so that the state and its operatives can use children to collect federal grants (Title IV funds for example) to give to third parties such as Maximus Inc.
A quick look at the US DOJ’s audits of New Hampshire shows that on more than one occasion, federal grants have not been spent as mandated, so let’s look at what is going on:
My research on this goes back decades. In fact to 1985 – the year that Police Officer Jim McLaughlin had a record for dishonesty which has just been revealed in the Laurie List, before it was removed by your office, just hours later.
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Jim McLaughlin, per articles, was working with a member of the DCYF for his investigation into Father Gordon MacRae which resulted in the trial in 1994. A later investigation by a former FBI agent indicates that Jim McLaughlin’s investigation into MacRae was entirely dishonest and that witnesses were trained and offered financial rewards.
Following MacRae’s trial, Edward Arsenault expensed meals, cell phones, and computers to the Diocese of Manchester shortly before Jim Rosenberg of the AG’s office found the first “victim” for the Diocese of Manchester, opening up a waterfall of lawsuits filed by Chuck Douglas against the Diocese of Manchester, facilitated by Edward Arsenault who was working, per articles with the police and press.
Also involved I gather from this time were Gordon MacDonald at Nixon Peabody; Alex Walker and David Vicinanzo.
Edward Arsenault was prosecuted and convicted in 2014 for bribery and theft which included expenses during those years at the Diocese of Manchester. Chuck Douglas described him as a very pleasant person to deal with.
Edward Arsenault now goes by the name of Edward Bolognini and is in an executive position at another non-profit in New York, having defrauded his earlier non-profit, the Diocese of Manchester.
Nowadays, the Diocese of Manchester refers families to the Children’s Trust Foundation/Trust Fund which is located at 10 Ferry Street in Concord. I have been told that the Children’s Trust Fund was reported to the Boston FBI in 2016 for suspected child trafficking.
Who is associated with the Children’s Trust Fund? Lauren Noether, who was also in the AG’s office.
What other organization is associated with the same address as the Children’s Trust Fund? Maximus Inc., which was given an exclusive contract with the DCYF in 2014 and on whose board sits Kathleen Kerr who worked for the DCYF for 12 years prior.
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During Kathleen Kerr’s tenure with the DCYF, she received a letter from the US DOJ regarding the failures of the DCYF in 1999. Around the same time that Edward Arsenault was expensing the Diocese of Manchester for meals, computers, and cell phones prior to the first “victim” to come forward for the Diocese of Manchester.
In 2014, Judge Larry Smukler denied a retrial for Father Gordon MacRae, despite overwhelming evidence of misconduct in his trial.
Also in 2014, the next victim of NH targeting appeared: Owen Labrie. A scholarship student from St Paul’s School, another wealthy institution, like the Diocese of Manchester. Labrie was framed following the White House Task Force strategic partnership with UNH documented in the White House’s April 2014 “Not Alone” paper.
His arrest warrant was announced precisely one day after Laura Dunn of the White House Taskforce spoke at the Dartmouth Sexual Assault Summit demanding consequences in campus sexual assault. Concord Police blindsided him, announced his arrest warrant, took two photos because they told him he would be famous and WMUR (Adam Sexton) broadcast it that night.
Laura Dunn appeared on TV during the trial as a “personal representative” for the victim’s family. In fact, Concord PD and the prosecutors knew her as a member of the White House Task Force.
Chessy Prout documents in her own memoir that it was the Concord PD who introduced her to Laura Dunn and that Chessy Prout and her parents flew to DC to meet with Dunn and Steve Kelly to sort out “the details” in Spring 2015, five months before the trial.
Amanda Grady Sexton described the trial in the Concord Monitor as “an opportunity.” She controlled the media and wrote about how she and Steve Kelly do this in the NCVLI document “Pretrial Publicity: Friend or Foe Advice from the Experts.”
Steve Kelly was on the board of NCVLI. Meg Garvin was on the board of NCVLI and Laura Dunn’s SurvJustice.
NCVLI featured Laura Dunn as a “Partner Spotlight” in Nov. 2014, and gave an award to Concord PD Julie Curtin for “justice for the victim” and recommended Amanda Grady Sexton to AG Gordon MacDonald and/or Rep. Ann Kuster.
Why did Concord Police attend a conference with Laura Dunn, who was not registered as a lobbyist in the State of New Hampshire in March 2015?
Why were Concord Police rewarded for their most basic failures: they failed to investigate DNA that did not belong to Owen Labrie. They failed to Miranda even though they were asked about it.
Who were the Concord Police working for and what kickbacks were they receiving for this and from whom? And why did New Hampshire courts allow a controlled media (WMUR had exclusive TV access) into a trial involving teenagers at all?
Does New Hampshire have absolutely zero respect for the privacy of teenagers except when it comes to not reporting on the failure of DCYF because the DCYF suddenly thinks family privacy is to be upheld (see statements from DCYF re Harmony Montgomery)?
DA Scott Murray lied to the public in the May 10, 2016 edition of Concord Monitor in which he said that police and prosecutors had thoroughly investigated St Paul’s School and found no other prosecutable misconduct. A lie that can be proven by Assistant DA Catherine Ruffle’s sidebar statements to Judge Smukler about Andrew Thomson; emails/texts of Andrew Thomson’s that are in the record and some published in ihavetherighttobook.com.
Jim Rosenberg, Andrew Thomson’s lawyer (who’d been at the AG’s office during the Diocese of Manchester case) stated that his client had done nothing wrong – contradicted by the police investigation record, the prosector statements to Judge Smukler that the prosecution sealed at the time but which the NH Supreme Court deemed relevant enough to have unsealed and formed the basis for a retrial hearing in February 2017.
And on the eve of the retrial hearing what happens? Congresswoman Ann Kuster takes Chessy Prout to Capitol Hill as a “survivor” knowing a retrial is coming up and Brooke Ruffle, Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle’s Daughter posts on Facebook under a photo of Owen Labrie “Go kill some rapist butt today, mom” (or similar – indicating that the Ruffle family have zero respect for the dignity of the court).
In fact, we know Catherine Ruffle has no respect for the dignity of the court by her ex parte statements to the press before the trial of Owen Labrie in which she asserted that Owen Labrie raped Chessy Prout multiple times. And we also know that Lyn Schollett, JD of NHCADSV also has zero respect for the dignity of the court since she told the public outside the trial that Chessy Prout said “No” three times.
The trial record, police record do not support Lyn Schollett’s statement.
So why does the State of New Hampshire allow this to happen? Because of the federal money and contracts involved is why.
It has become perfectly acceptable to lie about children, to coerce them, to stalk them, to bully in order to get contracts and federal dollars for the State of New Hampshire and its agencies. It is not acceptable and never should be. It is tantamount to child labor trafficking. Using children, replacing their statements, their raw narrative with one that is desired by the public officials and agencies for the financial benefit of those public officials and agencies.
Evidence of collusion between the police, prosecutors, Chuck Douglas, Steve Kelly, and Jim Rosenberg in NH v Owen Labrie (a repeat it seems of the Diocese of Manchester and Father Gordon McRae) resides in the prosecution’s decision to not include the terms “lap dance” or “Secret snuggle” in the prosecution’s list of terms it used to try to assert sexual contact for “hook-ups,” “slay,” “Senior Salute,” “Score.”
That’s because “secret snuggle” and “lap dance” were the terms used by Andrew Thomson with Chessy Prout, knowing she was 15 years old. But Andrew Thomson was the son of Lucy Hodder, legal counsel to Governor Maggie Hassan, and best friends with Congresswoman Ann Kuster.
Further evidence of collusion between police, prosecutors, Chuck Douglas, Steve Kelly, Jim Rosenberg, and NHCADSV (a client of Jim Rosenberg’s law firm Shaheen & Gordon) can be found in the June 1, 2016, first Doe (Prout) v St. Paul’s Lawsuit which was leaked to the Concord Monitor, Vice Media, and NBC Today Show before the school was served.
That lawsuit has a very glaringly obvious omission: while the lawsuit includes the emails and names of other male classmates/state witnesses from the criminal trial, Andrew Thomson’s name is absent and again so are his invitations to Chessy Prout seeking a “lap dance” and “secret Snuggle.”
How ironic that police discovery was used in this lawsuit and in the book ihavetherighttobook.com with intro by Congresswoman Ann Kuster.
Who in Concord PD allowed that and why?
How ironic that on the board of NHCADSV is a member of the “Spotlight” team and that a member of the “Spotlight” team, Jenn Abelson, was the co-author of ihavetherighttobook.com which Congresswoman Kuster wrote the introduction for. How ironic that Dan Hill of Hillimpact.com signed Chessy Prout as a client and that he promoted the book along with Laura Dunn and the NHCADSV, Kuster, and police and prosectors. He advertises that he has helped his clients secure $21 billion in Government Contracts.
Indeed, Laura Dunn was an ambassador for PAVE www.shatteringthesilence.org which was featured in 2010 with her and her SurvJustice co-founder S. Daniel Carter.
S. Daniel Carter told me personally in November 2019 that Laura Dunn’s primary interest in NH v Owen Labrie was St Paul’s School. He admitted that the publicity was a serious problem. Who was controlling that publicity? Amanda Grady Sexton and Steve Kelly who were beneficiaries of the agreements with St Paul’s for money and for a compliance officer.
I made a complaint in July 2020 to the LEACT commission about Detective Julie Curtin and the coercion of minors in the case of NH v Owen Labrie, NH v Griffin Furlotte and NH v Foad Afshar.
Why do pubic officials in New Hampshire get to dictate a false narrative for 6 years to enhance their own coffers which put the life of Owen Labrie in danger and subject to vigilante hate (as documented by Susan Zalkind in her March 2016 article about running into Labrie on the Boston Subway, causing him to be put in solitary confinement (where he was physically and mentally abused and starved) for his own safety?
I’m pointing out what others have not because I took the time to read trial records, to read and watch everything that was available, and to read Amanda Grady Sexton’s own comments about the “opportunity” in NH v Owen Labrie and how she and Steve Kelly create and control the media.
“Senior Salute” contradictory to what Ms. Sexton says, was not found by police or prosecutors or the State of NH to be a sexual conquest game performed by males upon females.
Read the records yourselves.
Further, contradicting Amanda Grady Sexton, Detective Julie Curtin’s and Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s assertions, sexual assault is not something that belongs to males. In fact, you will find your selves that in the mid-2000s St Paul’s School reported 15 senior female students for sexual hazing of younger female students, forcing them to perform oral sex on bananas.
Further, in 2014, the felony-level sexual assault of the son of the senior administrator of St Paul’s (by a senior female student) was punished merely by the suspension of the female student.
There were student whistleblowers who told me that they reported this at the time and they were silenced. Civil case 1:18-cv-00390 I believe also references this sexual assault of a male and yet the NHCADSV has gone out of its way to hide this from public knowledge – launching their national social media campaign in July 2019 to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in which this information was also revealed.
Two weeks after NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton blocked the ABC GMA interview from airing, NHCADSV became the beneficiaries of Steve Kelly and Chuck Douglas’s latest lawsuit: Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College.
From the numbers reported by Nancy West in In-Depth News – it looks like NHCADSV got $2.8 million or so from the Dartmouth suit. What did they do with it exactly?
Since then in 2020 one student at Dartmouth, Maha Hasan Alshawi, went on hunger strike over Dartmouth’s failure to investigate her alleged sexual assault by a professor. Students demanded due process to investigate her assault. Dartmouth, under pressure, hired a law firm that specializes in protecting institutions and returned a not guilty verdict based not on due process but on preponderance of evidence.
And NHCADSV said nothing.
Then another female student committed suicide after her alleged sexual assault. Again, NHCADSV said nothing.
So what were they doing with the $2.8 million it looks like they received from the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth settlement that was in negotiation during the time that NHCADSV got ABC/GMA to block the Labrie interview from airing?
Notice that NHCADSV and representatives of the State of NH also said nothing when Professor David Bucci committed suicide.
The New York Times called him a casualty of #MeToo legal strategy. He was. He was a victim of the media strategy that Amanda Grady Sexton and Steve Kelly boasted about in the NCVLI publication they authored.
The Dartmouth Board of Trustees denied him the right to defend himself. Why? It smacks of a wash rinse repeat of the Diocese of Manchester, St Paul’s, and Exeter. In each case, no criminal prosecutions of the administrators in charge of settlement agreements were made- all of which involve state agencies who have allowed children to die under state care despite their own direct involvement with those agencies.
I have never come across a State with so many non-profits dedicated to Children’s welfare, and domestic and sexual violence as New Hampshire. So what is going on exactly?
The history shows that children and young adults have been coerced, manipulated, and abused so that a few players in New Hampshire can enrich themselves and the state can get away with negligence.
Parents and caregivers who have been concerned for their welfare have been ignored. Judges (Introcaso) have falsified documents, GALs have been paid in cash, files have been deleted.
The history shows that true complainants of domestic violence and sexual abuse are being ignored, children are dying under state care despite the millions flowing to New Hampshire (latest being $1.5 million to UNH via Senator Jeanne Shaheen to “Study the effects of child sexual assault”.
Why did Andrew Crews of Autofair, Primary Bank, Children’s Advocacy Centers, State Lottery step down? His own bank, Primary Bank, for which he is a board member, gave a PPP loan to his company, Autofair and Autofair apparently failed to pay its employees per a lawsuit in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, the PPP loan is forgiven in full and Autofair is sold to a company in West Palm Beach and Andrew steps down. Is this the kind of person who should be on a Child Advocacy Center board? Someone who serves his own company from his own bank with federal loans?
Why did Bill Gardner, Secretary of State, step down?
Is this by any chance tied into Marsy’s Law, elections, or Pandora Papers? And are the children’s and DV/SA organizations tied into any of this?
Why does NHCADSV have over $1 million line item in misc. salaries and expenses when its ED, highest earner, Lyn Schollett gets $106K only. That’s a lot of money in a single line item. Ditto, HAVEN, $800K in salaries and expenses with no overt explanation. Gov. Maggie Hassan said she was giving Rich Schubert’s campaign donations to HAVEN.
HAVEN got a contract with Phillips Exeter Academy. Debra Altshiller works with HAVEN. Her daughter, Marina Altshiller, worked for Marsy’s Law as a “consultant” and now works for the State House.
Her husband, Howard Altshiller was president of the NH Press Association, presumably with the power to misinform the public consistently regarding Owen Labrie and St Paul’s School while simultaneously creating a media blackout surrounding the sexual assault cover-ups at Phillips Exeter Academy – because their friend Maggie Hassan was running for Senator and the truth wouldn’t look good.
DCYF deleted the files. AG Joseph Foster decided not to investigate. Police told, not to charge.
MOU with HAVEN failed so now they are pushing RAINN, another lobbyist which has as its sponsors: Absolut Vodka, Lyft & Uber – hardly an advertisement against sexual assault and domestic violence looking at the history of sexual misconduct at Lyft and Uber.
Why did the AG’s office remove names of corrupt police officers from the Laurie List? To protect the AG’s office from incrimination it would appear.
Why did NHCADSV block ABC – to protect its own financial interest in the Dartmouth suit and in the St Paul’s settlement? To protect its financial interests in the Adam Walsh SOR registration federal funds or in Office of Violence Against Women or VAWA funds?
Why did Maximus inc get a no-bid contract with DCYF in 2014 and why has DCYF consistently and systemically failed both before and after that contract?
Why did Chuck Douglas file a lawsuit on behalf of Jennifer Adams v DA Robin Davis for a “hostile environment” which appears to have been endorsed by NHCADSV, Concord Police, and Franklin Police? The lawsuit asserts that DA Robin Davis had issues with police’s use of media, tainted investigations, and too close relationship with prosecutors.
Why did police bully the teenage girls in NH v Griffin Furlotte? Why did they stalk the girls in NH v Owen Labrie? Why did they tamper with evidence and witnesses in NH v Owen Labrie, and why did NHCADSV go with the tampered witnesses and evidence and not the truth?
Money and contracts, I believe are the answer.
The SANE nurse report and the State Lab Technician report were not the results the NHCADSV, police, prosecutors, and Civil lawyers wanted, so they ignored them. Why bother having a SANE nurse at all if you are going to ignore her report? Or a State Lab’s report for that matter.
Why did NHCADSV endorse Paul Halvorsen as DA for Merrimack County when he had been a juvenile prosecutor, sending children to the dangerous environment of the state youth detention centers where they were held in child restraints per the report from Moira O’Neill?
One of Paul Halvorsen’s endorsements came from an employee at Riverbend Mental Health Clinic.
Look at the opioid crisis in NH and the Medicaid fraud and you start to realize that between this endorsement and another one I read about his ability to budget, justice for juveniles is nothing to do with what’s right for kids. It’s about how the State of New Hampshire Concord and Merrimack County can use children to make money.
The Attorney General’s office needs to address these issues because AG Gordon MacDonald’s statement that child safety was of paramount importance (during the St Paul’s investigation and settlement) could not be further from the truth.
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