I join in the concerns regarding Jane Young’s nomination as US Attorney for New Hampshire by President Biden.
In the fall of 2020, I wrote a letter to the AGs office and several other parties concerning my discoveries behind the political show trial of NH v Owen Labrie and the civil suits against St. Paul’s School which followed.
Separately I wrote to the LEACT commission in July 2020 about my concerns regarding the coercion of minors by police and public officials in three cases: NH v Foad Afshar, NH v Griffin Furlotte and NH v Owen Labrie.
DA Robin Davis wrote to the LEACT commission about her concerns regarding the police and the fact that they would go around her to the AG.
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In response to a letter I wrote to John Scippa at the Police Standards and Training regarding the misconduct of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, he told me he was referring the complaint to the AGs office.
I followed up with the AGs office and received an email from Jane Young stating that Geoffrey Ward would address.
Despite follow-ups, I never did get any indication that anyone was looking into my complaints.
In July 2020 the Concord Monitor published an article upon the publication of a memoir by St. Pauls School alum, Lacy Crawford. Within the article, there is a reference to a letter from AG Gordon MacDonald to publisher Little Brown regarding the “reckless” inclusion of details about Detective Julie Curtin and Officer Sean Ford’s methods of obtaining student files from St. Pauls School without a warrant.
Jane Young has asserted that she was heavily involved in the investigation into a private school. I believe this would be the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Pauls School ordered by AG Gordon MacDonald in July 2017.
St. Paul’s School had hired a law firm to do an investigation for years up to 2009. The school made those reports public. AG Gordon MacDonald’s order was for the years 2009 -2017. During this period Kelly Ayotte, Michael Delaney, Joseph Foster, and Gordon MacDonald had been AGs. Scott Murray had been DA for Merrimack County.
St. Paul’s School waived the right to privacy. After a year and a few weeks following the completion of the report and the announcement of a settlement agreement requiring an ex-police officer as an “independent compliance officer,” Judge Richard McNamara ruled to keep the investigation private.
A few weeks later, Michael Hirschfeld, the rector of St. Pauls during the period investigated was announced as the new principal at Kent School Connecticut.
DA Scott Murray had said that Concord Police Department had done a thorough investigation into St. Pauls School and found no other prosecutable misconduct in the May 10, 2016 Concord Monitor.
If that is the case then why was a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation launched? And if the findings required a “compliance officer” then why did Rector Michael Hirschfeld get a new job announced just weeks after Judge McNamara declared the report private? And why did Judge McNamara wait just long enough to presumably let statutes of limitations expire before his ruling?
My research indicates that the AG’s office and DA Scott Murray and Concord Police were involved in questionable conduct, if not a full scale racket. I believe that Jane Young would have been complicit in this since she asserts she was involved in the investigation into a private school.
Detective Julie Curtin and Officer Sean Ford were working under instruction of the AGs office during the criminal investigation of St. Paul’s School. That would include obtaining files without a warrant and cold-calling prospective “victims”, training them for intercept calls to wealthy targets. As Lacy Crawford has documented, Concord Police Department would not release her file which they had obtained without a warrant to her.
In April 2020, I received a call from one such “wealthy” target who was blackmailed into paying six figures to make a bogus threat of charges go away. He had obtained a copy of the phone call to him and could hear Detective Curtin training the “victim” she had cold-called in order to frame him.
DA Robin Davis allegedly had an issue with the police’s tainted investigations and too close a relationship with prosecutors. Chuck Douglas (who filed most of the Doe v Diocese of Manchester suits and the Doe(s) v St. Paul’s and Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth) filed Jennifer Adams v Robin Davis. It was supported by Amanda Grady Sexton who is both Chair of the Public Safety Committee for the City of Concord and Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV. It was also supported by Franklin Police Chief who is on the board of Children’s Advocacy Centers.
The AG’s office made a veiled threat that if DA Robin Davis couldn’t work effectively with the police then his office would take over.
Yet the same AG, Gordon MacDonald was “considering his options” over the court ruling to release the list of corrupt police officers to the public.
Geoffrey Ward recently deleted 28 names from the corrupt police officer list.
Jane Young should not be the US Attorney for New Hampshire because she has been party to and part of an office that has endorsed police corruption, cover ups and political coups that have harmed students and the community of St. Pauls School for financial and political gain and control.
Placing Jane Young in the office of US Attorney for New Hampshire will allow the corruption to continue at the expense of the public interest.
