On August 25th, 2023, a group of approximately 100 gathered in Concord to demand a federal investigation into the cover-ups of abuse at the Youth Detention Center. They blamed the Attorneys General and others for the cover-ups. They are right.
Each Governor appoints the Attorney General, and each Attorney General has never addressed but covered up the misconduct of police and others who are involved in enabling, encouraging, and hiding the abuse. When David Meehan brought a class action lawsuit against the State on behalf of hundreds of abuse victims, the State, under AG Gordon MacDonald, with Geoffrey Ward as his Deputy and Jane Young as Assistant AG, dismissed them for “victim negligence.”
The US Attorney’s office has declined to state whether a federal investigation will take place. That US Attorney for New Hampshire is Jane Young. She was very likely involved in drafting the State’s “victim negligence” response to David Meehan’s class action suit. Her federal prosecutors are Geoffrey Ward (who was head of public integrity under Gordon MacDonald but failed to respond to emails from Rep. Susan Homola regarding police misconduct. This was after John Scippa of Police Standards & Training had forwarded my concerns to the AG’s office and after Jane Young had promised me that Geoffrey Ward would respond. We were ignored, and files got deleted, and then Jane Young and Geoffrey Ward got rewarded by failing upward to become US Attorney and federal prosecutor, respectively. The relationship between the NH AG’s office and the US Attorney’s office in New Hampshire makes it impossible for a transparent investigation to take place because everyone is complicit, whether passively or actively. It is the same pattern we saw in the cover-ups of the FRM Ponzi scheme, which also involved the AG’s office’s failures. That was over a decade ago, and nothing has happened. All the same, people preside over how the state’s business is run – it’s just musical chairs.
Even the current messaging requesting an investigation involves someone who might be compromised: Charles Glenn.
Charles Glenn is the former stepson of Thomas Grover. Thomas Grover was adopted by Patricia Grover of DCYF. He was a drug addict who was offered money (substantiated in statements) to accuse Father Gordon MacRae, who was framed by Police Detective James F McLaughlin, whose name was hidden on the Laurie List but known about by AG Gordon MacDonald.
“Reportedly (and I understand that the AG’s office has been aware of this since 2012), Charles Glenn once approached Father Gordon MacRae in Concord men’s prison library where Macrae was a clerk (around 2008 or so). ” He allegedly said to MacRae, “You know the case against you was bogus, right?”. MacRae allegedly told him that he did know this but wanted to know how Charles Glenn knew it. Charles Glenn told him that his mother, Trina Ghedoni, was married to Thomas Grover during the years that Charles Glenn was in the Youth Detention Center. Later, Charles Glenn allegedly approached a friend of Father Gordon MacRae’s – Edward Silva (deceased). Silva relayed that Charles Glenn had information that could undo the case against Father Gordon MacRae but that he wanted money to provide that information. MacRae told Silva that this would render the information useless, and so it went no further.
Jim Abbott- a former FBI special agent- who was investigating the case against Gordon MacRae, interviewed Trina Ghedoni five times. She told him that she and Thomas Grover were visiting Charles Glenn at the YDC. The case against Father Gordon MacRae had exploded in the local media by then so Charles Glenn was well aware that Thomas Grover was his primary accuser. During a later visit with Thomas Grover alone at YDC, Grover allegedly told Charles Glenn that Father Gordon MacRae had never actually touched him but that he was about to “get a lot of money for this story”. Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she learned of those conversations between Thomas Grover and her son only after she divorced Thomas Grover. She also told Jim Abbott that James F. McLaughlin and therapist Pauline Goupil (who motioned for Thomas Grover to cry during his testimony from the back of the courtroom observed by witnesses who wrote to the judge about it but were ignored) were Thomas Grover’s primary coaches as he developed this scam.
Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she would ask her son, Charles Glenn, to cooperate. By that time, her son was in the NH State Prison. Apparently, Charles Glenn was in constant trouble at the prison, and not long after his first conversations with Father Gordon MacRae, he ended up in punitive segregation. Jim Abbott visited him at least three times and was able to elicit a signed statement that Thomas Grover admitted on numerous occasions that his charges against MacRae were “a total fraud for money.”
This became the basis for the “new evidence” that put Father Gordon MacRae’s habeas corpus petition into state and federal courts in 2012. But the state courts declined any hearing. Charles Glenn’s and Trina Ghedoni’s statements were attached to the habeas corpus. While Charles Glenn languished in and out of punitive segregation, he tried to talk to Father Gordon MacRae, but the latter stopped him, advising him that it would be seen as witness tampering. When he ended up in segregation again, he was angry with his mother for some unknown reason. He wrote a letter to the NH AG (Michael Delaney at the time or Joseph Foster) in which he accused Jim Abbot of having an affair with his mother (baseless, I understand). He said that his prior signed statement was not true. He wanted to get out of segregation and start over somewhere else. Mysteriously he was moved to a Connecticut prison after revoking his exculpatory statement against Father Gordon MacRae. Charles Glenn is now back in New Hampshire’s state prison and told Father Gordon MacRae recently that he was cooperating in order to get a federal investigation going.
On 30th August 2018, AG Gordon MacDonald was noted in the Concord Monitor to have argued against the release of the Laurie List, which had James F. McLaughlin’s name added to it in June 2018 for crimes dating back to 1985.
The investigation into James F. McLaughlin is being dragged out. He’s working in DA Chris McLaughlin’s office currently, which raises questions as to why a DA would hire a dishonest police officer at all unless it is to be complicit in going through and deleting more files.
AG Gordon MacDonald claimed “victim negligence” when he rejected the class action lawsuit against the State & YDC. No. Gordon MacDonald is involved in a racket that involved the extortion of the Diocese of Manchester and cover-ups of other priests’ sexual misconduct and abuse of position off the back of James F McLaughlin’s framing of Father Gordon MacRae; the extortion of St Paul’s School and cover-ups of sexual abuse there off the framing of scholarship student Owen Labrie. That involved one of James F. McLaughlin’s proteges: Police Detective Julie Curtin and James F. McLaughlin himself, who Gordon MacDonald brought out of retirement.
Jane Young as US Attorney for New Hampshire, is never going to investigate Governors, AGs, local attorneys, or non-profits because she is a gatekeeper, not a truth seeker.
I wrote a petition over a year ago to seek an investigation from the Senate Ways & Means Committee and the US DOJ’s office regarding the Youth Detention Center. Maybe now there has been a protest and national news organizations are picking it up, this will gain some traction. You can read it and sign it here.
