Dear Governor Sununu and AG John Formella, the Office of Public Integrity, and Merrimack County DA Paul Halvorsen. I believe you all recall the findings of the FRM Ponzi Scheme Report referencing the failures of the AG’s office under Michael Delaney as well as a reference to a Ponzi scheme that was ignored.
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I would have hoped that 13 years later, complaints wouldn’t go ignored, records wouldn’t be deleted, and that members of the public who take the time to bring up very real concerns don’t get shuffled around, ignored, or stonewalled. We don’t bring these issues to your attention without good reason.
The AG’s office also missed its chance to uncover the slush fund. While glossed over in its report, it was front and center in Attorney General Michael Delaney’s own testimony to the panel.“The Department of Justice made serious mistakes in handling the FRM matter. We missed opportunities to expose fraud,” he said. When questioned, Head said that the closest the office came to unraveling the fraud was after Christopher Carter contacted the agency — twice. Both Head and Delaney implied that the first Carter contact was a cold call to “the investigator of the day,” one of 30 or so he had to field, though Delaney did acknowledge that Carter was well known to the department, a former assistant attorney general who previously prosecuted homicides.
This was accurate as far as it goes. Carter told NHBR, but it is not the complete story. First, both Head and Delaney failed to mention that Carter was a senior assistant attorney general — the same title Head holds now. And before he prosecuted homicides, he prosecuted white-collar crimes.“I worked for these guys for years. I was down the hall from them. They know what I did,” Carter said. Second, Carter said that while he doesn’t remember many details of the conversation, he said he told them about a slush fund, and it would be clear in a state Supreme Court brief he had filed on behalf of a client.
Whose authority? In the beginning, however, the focus was on the Securities Bureau. After all, it was Securities that fielded the first complaint — a complaint that actually used the phrase “Ponzi scheme” — though that complaint came when Hildreth was director of the bureau.
I believe you are also aware that Michael Delaney has withdrawn his application to the First Circuit Court of Appeals and that some reports have referenced his belonging to an insider’s club. The same club that existed in 2010 when the FRM Ponzi scheme happened. The same club that was referenced in a Washington Post article about Chuck Douglas’ divorce from Caroline Douglas in 1999. The judge in their divorce resigned in 2007 over financial fraud.
I raised concerns in 2020 with the LEACT Commission regarding Police Detective Julie Curtin. I raised concerns with the AG’s Office of Public Integrity and DA Paul Halvorsen’s office regarding Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle’s being informed of witness tampering in the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie of state witnesses by Michael Delaney – documented in State Witness Chessy Prout’s statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2023.
You are also aware that Rule 3.8 of the Prosecutor’s Code of Conduct obliges a prosecutor to refrain from making ex parte comments either directly or via an accomplice which might prejudice judicial outcome. Yet, a document authored by Amanda Grady Sexton and Steven J Kelly, the lead attorney in Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School and Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College (both filed with Chuck Douglas as local counsel) demonstrates Amanda Grady Sexton’s work with police and prosecutors to create, control and shape the message in pretrial publicity, working with the Associated Press.
This would appear to be a straight violation of Rule 3.8, particularly as it has now been documented that Amanda Grady Sexton saw the trial of NH v Owen Labrie as “an opportunity,” advised Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle of witness tampering by Michael Delaney of State Witnesses in the presence of Sandra Matheson, an employee of the State in the role of witness coordinator and from the office of victim’s advocate.
I believe you are also aware that State Witness Chess Prout in NH v Owen Labrie was recruited by Laura L Dunn Esq, an advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force in March 2015 (or earlier) upon the recommendation of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin who had met Laura L Dunn at UNH which had a strategic partnership with the “Not Alone” task force documented in the “Not Alone” White Paper of April 29, 2014. And that police, prosecutors, and Amanda Grady Sexton (who was controlling the media) failed to make this relationship known to the jury, public, or defense.
You may or may not be aware that on the same day, April 29, 2014, the Department of Justice introduced a new grant initiative for campus sex offenses and that New Hampshire has received in excess of $900,000 since then under the Adam Walsh Sex Offender Act and that the NHCADSV, partnered with UNH is a beneficiary.
In other words, New Hampshire v Owen Labrie involved pre-rigging by officials in New Hampshire for the political and financial benefit of those officials. And now, the office of public integrity in the AGs office is ignoring this serious issue, Shaheen & Gordon were engaged to threaten me for bringing up serious racketeering concerns, and Merrimack County DA’s office has shrugged off responsibility.
In October 2019, Dartmouth Professor David Bucci committed suicide. He was a victim of public corruption that was blessed by the AGs office under Gordon MacDonald and which involved the NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton as well as the Chair of the New Hampshire Judicial Selection Committee Chuck Douglas and Steven J Kelly, who was originally introduced to New Hampshire via Laura L Dunn and Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin.
Professor Bucci’s suicide happened in the wake of a class action lawsuit against the college and its board of Trustees, whose members include Governor Sununu. Professor Bucci was forbidden from speaking for himself, yet his name appeared 31 times in the lawsuit with publicity paid for by Times Up/NWLC, who share the same PR company as It’s On Us, which was involved with NH v Owen Labrie and in the #SurvivorsOverRatings social media campaign in July 2019 launched by Amanda Grady Sexton.
The IRS Form 990 for Dartmouth College has a section regarding Conflicts of Interest, and yet there is no declaration that I can find mentioning the conflicts of interest with the NHCADSV (and there isn’t on the NHCADSV’s form 990 either), which was a beneficiary of the settlement agreement with Dartmouth College. That settlement agreement occurred approximately two weeks after Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV launched their national social media campaign #SurvivorsOverRatings to block ABC/Good Morning American from airing an interview with Owen Labrie, which included contents that would have exposed racketeering and bribery by the lawyers involved in the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School and Concord Police.
Amanda Grady Sexton, as an elected official and as Chair of Concord Public Safety Committee, is breaking the law by blocking a citizen’s right to speak and by blocking a program from airing which would reveal public corruption involving Concord Police, with whom she and her organization are closely involved, training them for intercept calls inter alia.
After I wrote to the LEACT Commission in July 2020, I was cyber stalked by Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV. I was doxxed, my clients were stalked, and some of them called me for my safety. That LEACT Commission was ordered by Governor Sununu. Whoever found my letter on the receiving end was related to the AGs or LEACT office, and I believe it was Amanda Grady Sexton and or Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin.
When I wrote to the AGs office questioning the integrity of the office in the wake of this treatment, I was ignored.
When I wrote to the Police Standards and Training Committee regarding Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, John Scippa forwarded my letter to the AG’s office. Jane Young responded, asserting that Geoffrey Ward would respond. He never did. I followed up a few times. Former Rep. Susan Homola followed up. We were stonewalled. He was head of the Office of Public Integrity. He deleted the files of 28 corrupt police officers (Julie Curtin’s, I suspect, is among those he deleted), and now he is a federal prosecutor.
For years people wrote about the FRM Ponzi Scheme, and they were ignored. They were right.
For years people wrote in about abuse at the Youth Detention Center, and they were ignored. They were right.
For years I have written about my concerns about Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, Concord Council member Amanda Grady Sexton, the NHCADSV, and racketeering tied to NH v Owen Labrie, Prout/Does v St Paul’s School, Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth. I have been ignored.
You all have an oath to office in addition to the professional codes of conduct for your professions. Why is it that these are ignored, and the public interest is ignored? Why should the public pay for decades of abuse of power that has allowed a select few in the club to get away with extraordinary felonious acts that have harmed citizens, and children, and endangered, even ended lives?
