You may be aware that the organization “Times Up” has halted operations per this announcement in the Hollywood Reporter.
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Times up Legal Defense Fund/NWLC put up the PR money for the plaintiffs (according to this article in the Union Leader) in Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth Board of Trustees, of which you are a member.
The lead attorney in the lawsuit against Dartmouth College was Steven J Kelly Esq, who was also one of three attorneys who sued St Paul’s School for the Prout family in the wake of NH v Owen Labrie.
Steven J Kelly’s partner in the lawsuit against St Paul’s School, filed on June 1, 2016, is Steven Silverman Esq, who had his license from DC Bar suspended in 2014 for using media to influence the judicial outcome in Doe v Cabrera. This fact is cited in St Paul’s School’s response to the Does (Prout Family) v St Paul’s School suit.
According to an affidavit by St Paul’s counsel (former AG) Michael Delaney, the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School suit was slipped by a “source” to NBC Today Show, Susan Zalkind at Vice Media and Jeremy Blackman at the Concord Monitor from whom Michael Delaney had to get a copy of the suit since the courts had closed but journalists were asking the school to comment on the suit.
Steven J Kelly & Chuck Douglas were in mediation on the Dartmouth suit when Amanda Grady Sexton of NHCADSV led a social media campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie upon his release from Merrimack County Jail.
https://www.concordmonitor.com/Advocacy-campaign-Good-Morning-America-cancel-Labrie-interview-27103441
I am aware of the contents of that interview, and it is my belief that the true reason that Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV did not want the program to air is that it would have exposed a bribery and extortion racket going on involving the attorneys who sued St Paul’s School and went on to sue Dartmouth. Attorneys who wanted to use Owen Labrie to get at St Paul’s money which I believe Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV had a financial interest in as well. It would also have exposed Concord Police and corruption within Concord Police and its crooked deals with St Paul’s School.
Amanda Grady Sexton and Steven J Kelly wrote the following guide to Pretrial Publicity which is published on the NCVLI site.
Amanda Grady Sexton attended the trial of NH v Owen Labrie, as did Steven J Kelly, who met with the Prout family five months before the trial in DC. He was introduced to them by Laura L Dunn Esq, who was recommended to the Prout family by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, whose budget to investigate St Paul’s and Owen Labrie and (possibly pay) witnesses was approved by the City of Concord Council whose Chair of the Public Safety Committee is Amanda Grady Sexton, Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV.
In the following article, it is quite clear that journalists were restricted in covering the NH v Owen Labrie trial and that Amanda Grady Sexton saw it as an “opportunity.” Her husband’s channel, WMUR, was granted exclusive TV access to the trial.
The NHCADSV got a contract with St Paul’s School out of the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation they lobbied AG Gordon MacDonald for. They likely also received 20% of each of Steve Kelly and Chuck Douglas’ suits against St Paul’s School.
The NHCADSV also got what appears to be $2.865 million from the settlement with Dartmouth, while Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas Esq got what appears to be $4.9 million.
Professor David Bucci committed suicide in the fall of 2019 after being denied the right to defend himself in the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth suit. He had been named 31 times and accused of knowing of sexual assault in his department but not reporting it. He professed he did not know, but Dartmouth denied his right to speak.
Had publicly elected officials Amanda Grady Sexton, Congresswoman Ann Kuster, and others not abused their elected positions to deny a New Hampshire citizen his right to speak for himself on ABC/GMA, I believe that Professor David Bucci would be alive today. The extortion racket would have been exposed, and the attorneys and Concord Police, and NHCADSV would have been exposed.
Do you care about lives, or do you care about covering up extortion rackets for your publicly funded non-profits such as NHCADSV and the attorneys and police they work with to game the system using media to influence judicial outcomes and their power to block the public’s right of access to jury trials?
How is it possible that the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, with you as a member and NHCADSV, have not crossed the line with regards to Conflicts of Interest for non-profits in Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth?
Professor David Bucci should be alive. He was a victim of a scorched-earth #MeToo extortion racket. Owen Labrie was silenced from speaking on TV because Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV needed to preserve that extortion racket.
Times Up was a fraudulent organization. It has folded. There needs to be a formal inquiry into what went down in the extortion of St Paul’s School, framing of Owen Labrie, Dartmouth College, and silencing of Professor Bucci, and blocking of the ABC/GMA interview that would have exposed the fraud.
Lastly, you requested public comment for the LEACT commission in June/July 2020. I wrote sincerely about my concerns regarding the coercion of minors in three cases: NH v Foad Afshar, NH v Griffin Furlotte, and NH v Owen Labrie. To my horror, my letter was taken and posted on social media after I had been cyberstalked by Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV. I was smeared. My family was smeared. I wrote to the AG about this and received no reply. My letter was the only letter to the LEACT commission that was posted on social media.
A year later, I was threatened with a defamation suit by Shaheen & Gordon on behalf of NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton. I am a victim of witness intimidation. It is unacceptable.
Kind regards,
Claire Best Hawley
Concerned Citizen and Parent of Daughters