Dear Ethics Committee,
It has become apparent that the New Hampshire courts do not respect the separation of powers and that there is, iI beleive, a racketeering enterprise going on that stems back to and involves current NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald.
In his capacity as Attorney General, MacDonald attempted to block the release of police officer names on the “Laurie list.” One of those police officers whose name did ultimately appear is New Hampshire’s top sex crimes detective James F. McLaughlin.
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald brought James F. McLaughlin out of retirement to work on the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School with Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin & Lieutenant Sean Ford between July 2017 and August 2018 when the report was finalized.
In June 2018, James F. McLaughlin’s name was added to the Laurie List with reference to the falsification of statements dating to 1985.
One of the cases being investigated by the detectives in the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School was that of Lacy Crawford, whose case was called “the smoking gun.” In Lacy’s memoir “Notes on a Silencing,” she documents the involvement of James F McLaughlin. She also states that AG Gordon MacDonald suddenly decided to take no more evidence from the police detectives on her case.
I believe that this is tied to Gordon MacDonald’s knowledge that James F. McLaughlin had been added to the Laurie list and that Gordon MacDonald was compromised since he introduced him to the investigation into St. Paul’s School. Instead of dealing with this, Gordon MacDonald covered it up and arranged the settlement agreement with St. Paul’s School requiring a compliance officer and a contract with the NHCADSV, who had lobbied him for the investigation. He upheld the state’s convictions against Owen Labrie in the full knowledge that he was protecting two corrupt police officers involved in the investigation into St. Paul’s School: James F McLaughlin and Julie Curtin (whose misconduct is documented in the criminal trial records).
Gordon MacDonald’s ex-business partner, David Vicinanzo, commended Judge Richard McNamara’s ruling to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation report private. How convenient: Vicinanzo provided legal counsel (per his own resume) to the NHCADSV, who got a contract out of it, and to members of the St. Paul’s community who were named in the grand jury report.
Gordon MacDonald (and David Vicinanzo) had been the legal counsel for the Diocese of Manchester priest sex abuse cases and settlements which came about after James F. McLaughlin investigated Father Gordon MacRae. Gordon MacDonald was well aware that James F McLaughlin had made false statements (some of which he corrected himself later) in that investigation. And he was well aware that witnesses in the MacRae trial had stated that they were offered payments. He was also well aware that Julie Curtin, working under Gordon MacDonald and Jane Young and reporting to James F. McLaughlin, it appears, was obtaining files from St. Paul’s school and cold-calling potential victims to encourage them to make accusations against wealthy alumni. And that Julie Curtin was being authorized by his office to make intercept calls to these alumni who would be threatened with criminal charges but could buy their way out if they paid six figures. Julie Curtin made one such intercept call in December 2018. I was contacted by the target of that call in Spring 2020, and I alerted Archibald Cox, St. Paul’s Board of Trustees, of the call. I also alerted him to my belief that Concord Police were sending out unsolicited photos of minor girls in order to federally entrap.
The representation of the Diocese of Manchester for Gordon MacDonald stretches to the involvement of the Diocese of Manchester and Monsignor Edward Arsenault in Catholic Risk Retention Management, Catholic Charities, and the Catholic Medical Center, where Arsenault was responsible for increasing profits. Arsenault was jailed in 2014 for defrauding the diocese and the CMC as well as a dead priest’s estate. The remainder of his sentence was vacated by the judge, whose case became the basis for the Laurie list. Arsenault was released under Gordon MacDonald’s watch as AG.
CMC has been fined $3.8 million in a kickback scheme, and the administrators are now being investigated for the cover-ups of medical malpractice. Alex Walker is the CEO of CMC, having previously served as legal counsel.
As you know, Gordon MacDonald has had to recuse himself from cases involving police misconduct. James F. McLaughlin is currently being investigated, I understand. However, given his relationship with Gordon MacDonald and Gordon MacDonald’s relationship with both the St Paul’s School and Diocese of Manchester cases, it would appear that New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice has some skeletons to hide that would be in the public interest to air for the safety and wellbeing of the citizens who pay for his position. AGs and New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justices cannot be involved in the cover-up of crimes to protect their own reputation.
You can read my article on this here.
