What would be Edward Arsenault’s need to tell a priest never to talk about this box of sex toys again? Why was he then transferred to St. Luke’s Institute in Maryland when this came out?
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And why would an assistant Attorney General, Jane Young, sort out a deal with Arsenault to give him a soft sentence?
The West Palm Beach Sicilian vase show of Arsenault’s becomes more intriguing when you discover that that Andrew H Crews, on the board of NH Children’s Advocacy Centers and on the board of Granite One Health — connected to the Catholic Medical Center- mysteriously stepped down as CEO of “Autofair,” New Hampshire’s largest car dealer and the company was sold to an agent in…….West Palm Beach in December 2021, just as the Senate Ways & Means Committee was starting to probe Governors about the Pandora Papers.
New Hampshire is home to $932.5 billion in Pandora Papers — hidden trusts, LLCs, and non-profits hiding money. And who else ended up in Florida after it was discovered that his associate Jeff Hatch was trafficking fentanyl across state lines but Eric Spofford, who owned Granite Recovery Centers — also connected to the Catholic medical/insurance enterprise. He’s now suing NHPR for defamation after a report that employees at the center claimed he’d sexually assaulted them and reported it to NHPR. NHCADSV, I believe, saw the Granite Recovery Centers as a new market for their victim entrepreneurship expansion venture.
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Not surprisingly, NHPR is resisting a judge’s orders to turn over discovery to Eric Spofford. The chances are that the NHCADSV (with Brian Harlow’s planning skills) was involved in providing NHPR with the narrative that would hopefully result in a contract for them at the centers. It didn’t quite work out, as the centers shut down after the expose of Jeff Hatch’s fentanyl trafficking business. He said he was part of a larger network, but nobody ever probed what that network was. He was given a ridiculously light sentence too.
From social media, it looks like Edward Arsenault and Francesco Bolognini met online. Now that he’s been defrocked, it seems Monsignor Arsenault’s “Virtus LLC” never had any real desire to “Protect God’s Children” as it claimed. With the cover-ups of Boston Police’s Patrick Rose, it’s not hard to see that the New Hampshire judiciary and non-profits are more interested in protecting pedophiles and sex rings than addressing them because of the money involved for the NHCADSV/SNAP, law firms, police & prosecutors budget planning.
The Boston Herald has been denied a FOIA request for documentation from the investigation of Rachel Rollins, US Attorney for Massachusetts, who was recently forced to step down for unethical activities.
When is US Attorney Jane Young, Federal Prosecutors Scott Murray (told the public that police & prosecutors had investigated St Paul’s School and found nothing to prosecute other than Owen Labrie), Geoffrey Ward (deleted the files of corrupt police officers with no explanation) and NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, NHCADSV/SNAP going to be investigated for deals, kick-back schemes with Arsenault, local attorneys, police, priests, governors and media?
The pattern of insidious corruption continues, and it directly puts children in danger: Manchester, New Hampshire, Police allegedly deleted emails from Mayor Joyce Craig regarding the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery. The speech and facial expressions of the Manchester Police Chief in interviews about her disappearance show that nobody is telling the truth. His department’s accounts of welfare visits were inconsistent as well. It wasn’t just that they dropped the ball. It is that the NHPD, DCYF, and related agencies are complicit in covering up abuse & trafficking, not addressing it.
What is very clear is that there is a pattern of dishonesty and that the Concord Monitor, Boston Globe, Union Leader, WMUR, NH Press Association, and Associated Press are going with narratives that are provided, curated or censored. From Amanda Grady Sexton’s bio, it would appear that she and the NHCADSV/SNAP are doing the curating and censoring to further their & the State’s public officials and affiliated attorneys’ RICO interests — not the public interest. “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” including if that means being complicit in and covering up crimes against children.
The Boston Globe Spotlight team only exposed a carefully curated part of the story of priest sex abuse — enough that the public would back off. A member of the same Spotlight team (Jenn Abelson) executed the same when it came to St. Paul’s School in the memoir “I Have The Right To.”
Judge Richard McNamara decided to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation report in to St. Paul’s School private. He quoted Mark Twain in his ruling:
In a 23-page order, McNamara wrote that grand jury testimony can involve all sorts of false, damaging and one-sided information, and New Hampshire has no historical or legal basis for releasing such information.
“Mark Twain famously said that a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. In an internet age, he might have added that the lie will forever outrun the truth as search engines become ever more efficient,” McNamara wrote.
His ruling decided a case that had been argued in secret.
Eight people who either testified or cooperated with the grand jury retained a lawyer to fight disclosure. David Vicinanzo said they did not want their information or identity out in the public.
He called McNamara’s order a “full-throated defense of the grand jury as an institution.”
David Vicinanzo is also the NHCADSV’s attorney. His clients got a deal out of it. He had been Gordon MacDonald’s partner at Nixon Peabody. He is now one of the attorneys representing victims of sex abuse at the YDC and in a dispute with one of his former clients who claimed he was seeking too much money (40% of the settlement).
The report on historic sex abuse, which St. Paul’s School published in 2017 and didn’t cover the period from 2009 onwards, was carried out by Scott Harshbarger, who is listed in Bernard Goldberg’s book “100 People Who are Screwing Up America”. This is the reason he is in it:
40. Scott Harshbarger (Mass. Attorney General)
Harshbarger built a child-abuse case against a day-care center’s owners using solely testimony from forty children. Upon investigation by the show 20/20, the testimonies appear forced by Harshbarger. Harshbarger was relentless in keeping the accused behind bars, and he remains as a force in the general climate of child-abuse hysteria.
Scott Harshbarger would have been AG General in Massachusetts during the cover-ups of Boston Police Union Chief Patrick Rose and his pedophilia. I suspect that he was referred to St. Paul’s School via Michael Delaney, former AG of New Hampshire who was representing St. Paul’s School but, per a report to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, tampering with State witnesses (including with the son of Governor Maggie Hassan’s legal counsel) in the courts before they testified. A large part of Michael Delaney’s law firm’s business (McLane Middleton) is advising schools on compliance regarding sexual misconduct protocols. It also has a Government strategy business. The unlawful interests for these can’t be hidden. Just like the Diocese of Manchester, St. Paul’s School was a cash cow for the attorneys, police, courts, and non-profits. Performative scandalous PR ventures hiding extortion rackets and protecting the real predators — the friends of the New England Club of attorneys, journalists, administrators, police, and non-profits.
What if the real scandal actually involves grooming, kidnapping, raping, and trafficking with the help of the police, attorneys, and courts themselves?
There is something New England’s courts don’t want to admit: Jane Young, who is now US Attorney for New Hampshire, arranged/agreed to Arsenault’s plea deal when she was assistant AG for the state. She shook hands with him in the courtroom.
AG Phil McLaughlin was congratulated on the “creative solutions” in the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse scandal- everyone kept their jobs, and a lucrative extortion racket ensued.
Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo, for Nixon Peabody, were sorting out fast deals, and Edward Arsenault was assuring everyone that insurance would take care of the settlements and the Diocese wouldn’t lose money. He was CEO of Catholic Risk Retention Management. He was also on the board of CMC, from which he stole. Yet his job role was to increase profits for the hospital. And while he was incarcerated, it appears he was still able to consult on risk management and to profiteer from it. It’s obviously lucrative because he managed to pay off $300K in restitution in a remarkably short amount of time. Inmate wages are cents on the hour.
Edward Bolognini follows Governor Sununu on Twitter. He also follows Donna Soucy, a prominent Democratic leader in New Hampshire who was once the legal counsel to the NH Banking Department (in 2006 when Arsenault was at the Diocese) when it was engaged in the FRM Ponzi scheme. She managed to escape scrutiny from the joint legislative committee investigating the scheme by joining Maggie Hassan’s campaign. Michael Delaney was the AG when the FRM Ponzi scheme came to light. His office was also involved in the cover-up. He has also been criticized for allowing police to make cash payments to each other. His wife was legal counsel for the Department of Revenue.
When AG Gordon MacDonald was nominated by Governor Sununu to become New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, he received two bizarre endorsements:
One was from Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV, who evidently didn’t have a problem with MacDonald’s defense of the Diocese and a priest’s grooming of a young teenager with pornography. The other was from Brian Harlow, also of the NHCADSV. Harlow had allegedly been the first victim found by Jim Rosenberg (at the time an assistant AG for Phil McLaughlin) to come forward in the Diocese of Manchester sex abuse scandal. It’s very curious that a victim advocate and survivor would both endorse an attorney who had defended the Diocese, which covered up decades of sex abuse and pedophilia.
Brian Harlow, of Concord, offered perhaps the most surprising words of support. A victim of clergy sex abuse, Harlow said at the hearing he met MacDonald when MacDonald represented the Diocese of Manchester. MacDonald, he said, helped him take “immeasurable steps toward healing.”
The non-profit Times Up was formed in response to the #MeToo movement following the NYT expose of Harvey Weinstein. But author Ken Arletta (“Hollywood Ending”) had tried to expose Harvey Weinstein for years. NBC shut down Ronan Farrow’s expose. Vanity Fair did a reputation clean-up piece when Malia Obama went to intern for Harvey Weinstein. It turns out that Times Up was protecting predators and using funds to promote celebrities but not really helping many victims. The message was a great distraction from the harsh fact that the Clintons, Obamas, and others had spent the last decade praising Harvey. Coincidentally Times Up had PR representation from SKDK (with Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen at the top of it. These were Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s PR experts).
When the priest sex abuse scandal started, the nonprofit SNAP opened. Is SNAP, in fact, just like Times Up — creating a narrative to protect the real truth from coming out? SNAP has only been very mildly critical of Edward Arsenault. What if it’s all a money laundering, sex trafficking, and extortion racket that is being carefully protected by the New Hampshire & Massachusetts Bar Associations who want to keep the money pouring in?
Considering the recent exposure of New Hampshire’s police corruption and the City of Boston’s cover-ups of Patrick Rose, Jim Rosenberg’s statement below hasn’t aged well:
Jim Rosenberg, who with Will Delker, the head of the criminal division, undertook the inquiry, said that McLaughlin was the architect of the approach that eschewed criminal proceedings against the church hierarchy in favor of full disclosure and a commitment to cooperate with law enforcement. Rosenberg said that the outcome was preferable to what could have been expected from criminal proceedings. Noting that McLaughlin assembled a coalition of victim advocates and law enforcement officials, he stressed that “creative remedies were achieved by Phil’s leadership.”
Jim Rosenberg’s law firm Shaheen & Gordon (who represented Ghislaine Maxwell in New Hampshire) has hired Concord Police Officer Julie Curtin for claims made by Nicholas Huppe, aka Niko Roswell, against the Diocese for cover-ups of his own child sex abuse and trafficking involving his mother, father (a police officer) and grandfather (a decorated marine). His mother worked at St. Mary’s, Rochester, New Hampshire. He claims she was paid in cash too.
Creative solutions come in Italian Ceramics in Florida, Catholic Risk Retention Management, the New Hampshire AG’s office, and cash payments.
