Be it noted that Deputy AG Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28+ police officer files relating to the Laurie List. This occurred after a letter I had written to John Scippa of police standards and training regarding concerns about Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin which he told me he was forwarding to to the AG’s office.
Assistant AG Jane Young replied to me, stating that Geoffrey Ward would respond, but he did not. Rep. Susan Homola followed up as well with his office using the pretext that Assistant AG Jane Young had assured me that there would be a response. She received no reply either, and then Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28 police officers, and Julie Curtin left Concord Police Department after 15+ years with no explanation.
Geoffrey Ward is now a federal prosecutor, and Jane Young is now US Attorney for New Hampshire. New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice is former AG Gordon MacDonald who argued that the Laurie list should not be made public in August 2018 when Julie Curtin and James F McLaughlin were working for him and Jane Young on the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Pauls School – paid for by the public. Gordon MacDonald knew that James F McLaughlin’s name was on the Laurie list in August 2018 but he hid it.
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He knew that Julie Curtin had obtained student files without a warrant at his office’s direction from St Paul’s School and he knew that her sworn affidavit used to obtain records for NH v Owen Labrie contained a lie which was corrected by the SANE nurse, under oath, in the criminal trial. Despite all of this, the State still uses Detective Julie Curtin as a witness in State trials, and the State continues to hide the records of Police Detective James F McLaughlin.
My research concludes that public officials are covering up nefarious activities in which they have profited using public funds and that the reason for hiding these records is due to their desire to prevent the public from discovering this. They are public officials, paid for by the public and they have NO right to hide their activities from the public or their financial dealings – kick backs, secret deals, for profit enterprises hiding behind non-profit fronts.
The state is also hiding )or playing dumb about) evidence regarding witness tampering in the trial of NH v Owen Labrie by former AG Michael Delaney with state witnesses who were then allowed to provide testimony after Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle was informed by Concord Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton of the tampering. The records of this sit with the US Senate Judiciary Committee and are corroborated by a conversation Prosecutor Ruffle had with Judge Larry Smukler which was unsealed several months after the trial. At the moment of their unsealing, Ruffle claimed she had misspoken and retracted her comments. She is now a clerk for Merrimack County Superior Court. But the fact that there was witness tampering has been supported by at least two other documents from both the state witness’s family and the defense’s counsel.
The State of New Hampshire and its public officials are complicit in the abuse of public funds to deceive the public to cover up a racketeering enterprise that is the result of collusion between Concord Council members, Concord Police, Merrimack County prosecutors and court personnel, the AG’s office, the NHCADSV, UNH PIRC, Franklin Pierce Law School, the judiciary committee and law firms Shaheen & Gordon, McLane Middleton, Nixon Peabody and others.
Why should the public pay for publicly elected officials to racketeer and then collude to hide their actions that have interfered with the criminal and civil justice system and abused federal grants?
The state has ignored millions of complaints by members of the public. Why should the public have to pay to gain access to the state’s deliberate failures and cover ups – eg the FRM Ponzi Scheme, the Diocese of Manchester/Police/ YDC abuse cover ups or instructions to the DCYF to delete files re YDC, Phillips Exeter Academy or elsewhere?
Claire Best Hawley
Moultonborough
Concerned Citizen
