I have written before regarding former Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, but seeing that she just gave testimony in a criminal trial: State v Jessica Warren, I am compelled to do so again.
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It is my belief that former Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, who I understand is now with Epping Police Department and worked in the AG’s office under former AG Gordon MacDonald, is involved in an organized crime racketeering enterprise which I suspect involves kickbacks possibly from the NHCADSV or Children’s Advocacy Centers (on whose board she sits) or attorneys and public officials in the court system.
I find it extraordinary, given the multitude of documented records and complaints, that Julie Curtin should be allowed to give testimony in a criminal trial (State v Jessica Warren). She has proven several times that she is not a credible witness. Chris D’Angelis, who also gave testimony in this trial, has worked with her before and is, I believe, an enabler of dishonest practices.
1. Earlier this year, I was contacted by an out-of-state attorney who had represented Fabiana McLeod in a civil suit against the Fessenden School in Massachusetts following the arrest of Primo “Howie” Leung by Detective Julie Curtin in Concord in April 2019.
The attorney who contacted me had been referred to Fabiana McLeod by an attorney at Wadleigh Starr who filed claims against Concord Schools/Primex, which yielded $1.5 million, I understand.
The judge in the civil suit against Fessenden School Massachussetts threw the suit out in its entirety as the most basic standards of proof were not met. Nevertheless, it was statements issued in news media and which were tied to Detective Julie Curtin’s statements that triggered the suits against both Concord Schools and Fessenden School.
The attorney who called me told me that he had withdrawn from the case as he suspected some kind of racket, and he knew that I had written articles in which I have brought up Detective Julie Curtin’s conduct as well. He asserted that after Julie Curtin’s original statement asserting the sexual misconduct at Concord Schools, the story evolved into one of sexual assault not in New Hampshire but at Fessenden School, Massachusetts.
Merrimack County Attorney Paul Halvorsen has not brought charges in 4 years against Howie Leung, and Massachusetts prosecutors and defense attorneys have had to shift the criminal trial multiple times due to a lack of information from Julie Curtin’s files on the matter.
This is not an isolated incident.
2. In Spring 2020, I was contacted by an alum of St Paul’s School who told me that he had been the target of an intercept call orchestrated by Detective Julie Curtin (in December 2018, I believe), who had obtained files from St Paul’s School without a warrant and had cold-called a woman he had known at his time at the school circa 2005 or so. Detective Curtin had apparently obtained her file from the school without a warrant and then called her, and then trained her for an intercept call to him. He could hear Detective Curtin training the woman at the end of the call. He hired a local attorney, and a deal was sorted whereby if he paid 6 figures, the threat of charges would go away. This is blackmail.
The NHCADSV, per Amanda Grady Sexton in the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence, train the police for intercept calls. The City of Concord Council approves the budgets for investigations, including payments to witnesses (or in this case, I believe, promises of payments to witnesses). That’s bribery.
The Chair of the City of Concord Council’s Public Safety Committee is Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV. The NHCADSV I understand, receives approximately 20% of civil suit settlements. That’s a kickback.
3. In July 2020, The Concord Monitor published an article that included a reference to Julie Curtin and her obtaining student files from St Paul’s School without a warrant. What the article artfully fails to mention is that Julie Curtin was working at the instruction of AG Gordon MacDonald and Assistant AG Jane Young at the time she obtained Lacy Crawford’s file. They would have authorized her to obtain files without warrants, to cold call prospective victims, to train the prospective victims for intercept calls, and to make the intercept calls. I believe the reason that AG Gordon MacDonald’s office would not accept more information on Lacy Crawford’s case is that he and Jane Young were aware of Julie Curtin’s credibility issues which had been exposed in the trial records from NH v Owen Labrie.
4. In July 2019, The Concord Monitor published an article about the NHCADSV’s social media campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie (whose criminal case had been investigated by Detective Julie Curtin who also investigated St Paul’s School for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation ordered by AG Gordon MacDonald in July 2017, completed in August 2018). One of the organizations referenced in the article and which joined the campaign to block the program from airing was PAVE for which Laura L Dunn (who instructed NH PD in March 2015 and to whom Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin referred Chessy Prout in March 2015 (and possibly as early as June 2014, per statements by Chessy Prout for the Women’s Media Center) had been an “ambassador,” and Chessy Prout became an ambassador.
PAVE’s founder, Angela Rose, was given an award in 2013 by Steven J Kelly Esq, who was introduced to the criminal proceedings of NH v Owen Labrie by Laura L Dunn, who’d been introduced and recommended by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. Steven J Kelly Esq was on the board of the National Crime Victims Law Institute (NCVLI), which published a guide to Pretrial Publicity by Amanda Grady Sexton and Steven J Kelly. I believe that the practices outlined in the guide were used in Primo “Howie” Leung’s case as well as in NH v Owen Labrie, Doe/Prout v St Paul’s School, the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation announcement and settlement and in Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College.
Steven J Kelly, Steven D Silverman and Chuck Douglas III filed the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s civil suit on June 1, 2016 and a copy of it was given to Concord Monitor, Vice Media, NBC Today show, but not St Paul’s School. The claims in the Fabiana McLeod v Fessenden School suit were reminiscent of the claims made in the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School suit – loose on facts. And yet in both cases, the claims were reliant on statements and investigations by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin.
The NCVLI recognized Julie Curtin for “justice for the victim” in NH v Owen Labrie.
The New Hampshire Police & Fire Department gave Julie Curtin an award for getting “justice for the victim” in the wake of the Labrie trial even though the criminal trial records show very clearly that Detective Julie Curtin lied on a sworn affidavit regarding a “laceration consistent with penetration.”
The SANE nurse, whose report she’d cited, stated under oath that there was no “laceration.”
Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin just fabricated it and Amanda Grady Sexton of the City of Concord Council worked with her, the prosecutors, Steven J Kelly, NHCADSV and the State witness, Chessy Prout and family, to create and control the media to the benefit of Concord Police, Merrimack County Prosecutors, the NHCADSV, Steven J Kelly and attorneys at Shaheen & Gordon, Douglas & Leonard, McLane Middleton.
5. In 2006, in State v William Mussey, Detective Julie Curtin’s name comes up again. The defense attorney asserted that Curtin was dishonest.
During the closing argument, the defense counsel said that the police officers involved in this case “don’t like to follow the rules, ․ they want to do things their own way and ․ they think it is okay to bend the rules to get a conviction.” Defense counsel told the jury that the reason the detectives did not prepare a written confession for the defendant to sign was that the defendant “wouldn’t have signed [it] because it wasn’t true.” She also argued that detectives were trained in deception and stated, “If you’re not a good liar, you’re not a good detective ․ In their mind, deception helps get convictions.”
During the State’s closing argument, the prosecutor stated to the jury, “Do these people have a motive not to lie? If it is determined that these officers lied and conspired together to convict an innocent man, their careers will be –” Defense counsel objected at this point. The objection was overruled, and the prosecutor continued, saying, “Their careers will be over.”
6. When Detective Julie Curtin and Officer D’Angelis met with Owen Labrie and his mother in Concord in June 2018, Curtin told Denise Holland (Owen’s mother) that she didn’t think it was necessary for an attorney to be present. Strangely, however, according to Chessy Prout’s statements for the Women’s Media Center, Julie Curtin had already talked up Laura L Dunn Esq (Steven J Kelly’s partner) while Chessy Prout was at Concord Hospital waiting for the SANE nurse. Detective Julie Curtin admitted in the trial of NH v Owen Labrie that she had been trying to “catch” Owen Labrie and to coerce a statement from him “before rumors spread.” But one casual glance at the discovery will show you very clearly that she was the one creating the rumors herself and then scaring students with them to coerce them into saying things she wanted. THAT is child coercion, child labor trafficking, child endangerment, and it has been banned in some states.
7. DA Scott Murray stated in the May 10, 2016, edition of the Concord Monitor that Police and Prosecutors had done a thorough investigation into St Paul’s School and found no prosecutable evidence – contradicting AG Gordon MacDonald’s Grand Jury Criminal Investigation conducted by Julie Curtin (for much of the same period) who is the police officer who, according to DA Scott Murray, did a thorough investigation and found nothing. At the end of the day, there were no prosecutions of administrators at St Paul’s. The headmaster got another job in Connecticut, and I was told that was all to do with a money deal as well. They were prepared to overlook his failures to mandatory report the felony-level sexual assault of a senior administrator’s son by an 18-year-old, and apparently, Julie Curtin was as well since she knew all about it. The secret deals must be good. Julie Curtin even knows about them because she admitted this to Lacy Crawford.
Julie Curtin is on the board of the Children’s Advocacy Centers. Why? She is dishonest and a danger to children and young adults.
She wrote down in her notes from her interview with Lucy Prout, in the police records, that Chessy Prout told Lucy Prout “I have never said he raped me.” But far from exploring that avenue or asking Lucy Prout why she gave Owen Labrie a black eye (which made him a very visible victim of domestic violence completely ignored by Julie Curtin in her investigation) when she stated that Chessy had said that Owen Labrie had not raped her, she ignored this. She ignored DNA that did not belong to Owen Labrie, even though she and Office D’Angelis told Chessy Prout of its existence. She also ignored the requests of the mother of another 15-year-old to investigate Andrew Thomson, whose testimony the State relied upon even though the State admitted to Judge Larry Smukler that she knew of a deal that had been made for Andrew Thomson – a statement she retracted later when that conversation with the judge became unsealed.
How is the public supposed to have faith in New Hampshire’s criminal justice system when police racketeering and corruption is protected?
From an email sent to: Bradley Osgood, Mike Wallace, John Scippa, Paul Halvorsen, and John Formella
