Four years have passed since the Howie Leung incident broke out in Concord. The scandal centered around a teacher accused of inappropriate contact with female students and the years-long cover-up by the school.
Students who stepped forward previously had been silenced, and everyone from the union reps to the administrators was keen on hiding whatever it was. The Concord Monitor, Patch, and even the Grok were all over the story at the time, elevating it to a level that could not be avoided.
Leung was arrested. The district Superintendent and a Principal were shown the door a few months later. But Leung still hasn’t been charged in New Hampshire and has been out on supervised release (in Massachusetts), awaiting trial for charges in that state.
Claire Best mentioned it in a wide-ranging email sent last week to the NH DOJ and a list of State Reps and media folks (myself included).
In January 2023, The Concord Monitor publishes an article stating that Primo “Howie” Leung has not been prosecuted in New Hampshire, that the criminal trial against him in Massachusetts has been delayed several times and is now set for fall of 2023. Concord DA Paul Haloversen has not prosecuted him. Concord Schools insurer paid out $1.5 million based on investigations by an ex prosecutor from Massachusetts but Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin’s original affidavit remains sealed and the case seems to have progressed no further since the April 3, 2019 arrest. The judge for the civil suit against Fessenden School Massachusetts tossed the case out completely citing the lack of evidence – the evidence relied on Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin’s statements and Massachusetts attorneys, defense attorneys and prosecutors have been unable to advance due to lack of information.
The problems with evidence fit a profile that Claire has shared on our pages time and again. Sexual assault cases arising in New Hampshire have a strange history that includes a familiar cast of characters and ends with large sums of money passing between familiar fingers.
We covered the Howie Leung story, emphasizing the Teacher’s Union and Administrative cover-up of alleged misconduct. Union reps tried to intimidate witnesses. The principal at the High school was also a principal at the Middle School where Leung is suspected to have been a bit handsy with the girls – but clearly knew something was off and managed to provide cover at two separate schools.
And after all that, the State of New Hampshire hasn’t charged him or appears likely to, and Massachusetts can’t bring a case to court.
But the money has changed hands. The insurance company paid the alleged victim for what we must ask.
If you have the time, Claire has cataloged a lot of that sort of thing in the Granite State. Sexual assault cases, witness tampering, smearing the accused, what look like payoffs, sketchy prosecutorial and court practices, and, as I noted above, many of the same players in the NGO and Political environment.
Some of whom continue to move up in the so-called criminal justice system in New Hampshire.
And there always seems to be a lot of money moving around.