In November 2021 Geoffrey Ward, assistant Attorney General – after Gordon MacDonald moved up to the position of New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice – deleted the files of approximately 28 police officers whose names were on the Laurie List.
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The mission statement for the New Hampshire Department of Justice reads as follows:
The mission of the department is to serve the people of New Hampshire with diligence, independence and integrity by performing the constitutional, statutory and common law duties of the Attorney General as the State’s chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer, to seek to do justice in all prosecutions, to provide the State with legal representation and counsel of the highest quality, to protect the State’s environment and the rights of its consumers, and to provide supervision and leadership of New Hampshire law enforcement.
Geoffrey Ward was also responsible for the Office of Public Integrity within the Attorney General’s Office. He sorted out a generous plea deal with no jail time for Judge Julie Introcaso, who pled guilty to a felony. Julie Introcaso had been chair of New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Council.
Geoffrey Ward, I had been assured by assistant AG Jane Young in December 2020 would answer my concerns regarding the misconduct of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, whose egregious failures are documented in criminal trial proceedings yet were rewarded by the New Hampshire Police, Fire & EMS Foundation in 2016
It was the same year that corrupt sex crimes police officer James F McLaughlin was rewarded for his lifetime achievement of dishonest tactics which have kept Father Gordon MacRae incarcerated and denied justice since 1994. John Scippa of Police Standards and Training forwarded my complaint regarding Julie Curtin to Jane Young. I did point out to John Scippa that the AG’s office had a conflict of interest: Julie Curtin was working in the AG’s office at the time. She has now left the AG’s office and works in the Epping Police Department, where teenagers will be subjected to her dishonest tactics – tactics of a tainted sex crimes unit which appear to have been a concern for DA Robin Davis per reports surrounding Jennifer Adams v Robin Davis.
Now Geoffrey Ward moves up the ladder to become federal prosecutor alongside Scott Murray, former US Attorney and former DA for Merrimack County who gobbled up Julie Curtin’s corrupt practices to prosecute Owen Labrie for a State political coup yielding millions of dollars in rewards and lucrative civil suits relying on the dishonest investigation & representation as well as career advancement for several.
The Attorney General’s spokesperson commented: “It’s good cross-pollination,” said Garrity, adding the move solidifies a strong relationship between state and federal prosecutors in New Hampshire.”
Who do Geoffrey Ward and Scott Murray work with? Jane Young, former Assistant Attorney General and now US Attorney.
The New Hampshire US Attorney’s office statement reads:
The United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire is the state’s chief federal law enforcement officer. The office prosecutes criminal cases brought by the Federal government, prosecutes and defends civil cases in which the United States is a party, and enforces the collection of debts owed to the Federal government.The United States Attorney’s Office works to foster strategic partnerships with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as other members of the community, to have a positive impact on the quality of life for all New Hampshire residents.Can the AG’s office or the NH US Attorney’s office begin to quantify to the citizens of New Hampshire the “positive impact on the quality of life for all New Hamsphire residents”?
Jane Young shook hands with former Monsignor Edward Arsenault as he pled guilty to theft and fraud of the Diocese of Manchester. He was transferred from Concord men’s prison to Keene County Jail upon arrival and then had his restitution of approximately $300,000 paid off in full before he was released after a few short years with a new name (Edward Bolognini), new position with a new non-profit (ReServe).
Jane Young presided over the grand jury criminal investigation into St Paul’s School which the State then decided to keep secret despite the school’s waiver of privacy.
Yet, miraculously, who should get information from the grand jury investigation? Former NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Chuck Douglas who was able to get rich off several ambulance-chasing lawsuits against the school with the help of Julie Curtin and the NHCADSV who the State claims is a private entity yet which receives less than 1% of its funding from private donations – the rest coming from the State budget.
Of course, it was Chuck Douglas, former NH Supreme Court Chief Justice and current Chair of NH Judicial Selection Committee who filed the Jennifer Adams v DA Robin Davis hostile environment suit, which resulted in $165K payout to Jennifer Adams because Robin Davis allegedly made her cry and $35K to Chuck Douglas’ law firm.
It was the Griffin Furlotte investigation apparently that triggered the disagreement between Jennifer Adams and Robin Davis.
A teenage girl testified that police, public officials, and administrators had lied to her, bullied her, stalked her, and force-fed her enumerated versions of events between her and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Griffin Furlotte. She didn’t get $165K of public money. She had her life turned into a nightmare while Griffin Furlotte was held in jail in pretrial detention and treated as a “monster.” Both teens likely to spend the rest of their lives with PTSD from the experience.
“For months, I was jerked around by the staff at Pembroke Academy, local police and officials involved with the investigation,” she said. “I was manipulated, lied to, kept in the dark and force fed enumerated versions of events that supposedly happened between griffin and I.”
How is any member of the public supposed to have any faith whatsoever in the NH Judicial system, either at the State or Federal level? It’s a revolving door kleptocracy of dishonest police, prosecutors, and collaborators protected by the AG’s office, the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice, the NH US Attorney and the NH Federal Prosecutors.
There is no accountability, no responsibility to anyone except those in their own club. Decades of files regarding child abuse at YDC disappear. Decades of files of police corruption are kept hidden. Decades of reports of child abuse and misconduct. Taxpayers cough up for all of this while members of the judiciary and their attorney & police officer pals get rich with their interests in Children’s Advocacy Centers and CASA NH.
The stagnant club reported in 1999 in the Washington Post still goes strong, with the same people getting rich off public funds and private scams while children and families pay to suffer.
There has been widespread dissatisfaction for some time in New Hampshire, they say, with the state’s clubby, closed-door method of handling complaints against judges and other lawyers.
Isn’t it interesting that a Company in Hong Kong called Morning Gate CASA NH has a registered address in Concord, New Hampshire?
Who filed a financial statement of interest in CASA NH? Caroline Douglas – legal counsel for the NH Department of Revenue. She filed it for her and Michael Delaney, former AG who coincidentally represented Julie Introcaso. Introcaso who ordered GAL Kathleen Sternenberg to be paid with Apple Pay and who whited out judicial documents.
