There comes a point where the powers that be in New Hampshire & Massachusetts can no longer hide — that moment is now. The law firms between the two states are intimately tied.
“NH Courts are going to hold listening sessions to understand the public’s experiences of justice.” — is this a parody? The NH Courts have heard decades of complaints from the public, attorneys, and others explaining over and over the issues of court corruption, self-dealing, denial of justice, cover-ups of police corruption, and child and sex abuse. But now they want to hear it again.
Which part do they not understand? Perhaps lining the courts with mirrored walls might make prick their conscience.
In Boston, a prostitution ring has been busted. The clientele includes lawyers, doctors, professors, and politicians. The AG’s office in New Hampshire is a revolving door with the top law firms in Manchester, NH (1 hour from Boston) and Concord, NH, 1 hour 15 from Boston. These law firms are extraordinarily wealthy. How did they become so rich? From profiteering off the public, from figuring out how to game the system in a club that was known about at least as far back as 1999 (the year Nixon Peabody was founded in Boston and Manchester, NH) when the “clubby atmosphere” was mentioned in the Washington Post article “Douglas & Douglas: A Splitting Headache.”
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That article mentioned that Chuck Douglas (once NH’s Supreme Court Chief Justice) was allegedly found to be having an adulterous affair in his law office with a receptionist who was also a client. He is now the Chair of the Judicial Selection Committee. The article also mentioned that he had a timeshare in Aruba, which was later discovered to be the hotbed of the Paradise Papers (which preceded the Panama Papers and the Pandora Papers).
One look at the top law firms in New Hampshire & Boston, and you will find that they are tied to dozens of shell companies, real estate, non-profits, and lobbyists. Look at their profiles, and you find an overabundance of defense for white-collar crimes & sex crimes for one small state of 1.3 million people.
US Attorney Scott Murray, who had been DA for Merrimack County, floundered when journalists asked him about why the Bedford police were not involved in the fentanyl bust there.
Senator and former AG Kelly Ayotte’s aide David Whiby was caught in a prostitution ring. Kelly Ayotte claimed to know nothing.
Nixon Peabody, one of the largest New England Law Firms, has been in at least two Ponzi schemes.
People claimed to know nothing about Ghislaine Maxwell’s business in New Hampshire or her house “Tucked Away.” I find that impossible to believe given that the registrar of deeds recorded the purchase and the registrar of deeds is an elected position and is housed next to the Sheriff of Merrimack County, whose son continued working for Concord Police after he’d been reported for domestic violence to DCYF. Former AG Gordon MacDonald didn’t believe the previous Sheriff of Merrimack County should be put on the list of corrupt police officers even though he’d been arrested and found guilty in a DWI offense. The Sheriff kept his job for some time after. The Governor, not the AG, asked him to step down.
Ghilsiaine Maxwell’s house was one of the most expensive properties recorded that week and was a cash buy and it didn’t raise eyebrows?
Shaheen & Gordon represented Ghislaine Maxwell when she was arrested. She and Jeffrey Epstein also had a fake non-profit called “TerraMar” whose board also included a New Hampshire local from Portsmouth. How convenient: Portsmouth is a port harbor, Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband was an ex-Boston coastguard with a shipping container tracking company called “Cargo Metric,” and Senator John Kerry was one of his besties…he even wrote the introduction to one of Scott Borgerson’s books. Coincidentally, Ghislaine Maxwell had a company called Granite Reality, which was registered to 2 1/2 Beacon Street in Concord (where Boston Private Bank tied to the Silicon Valley Bank/FTX scandal was also based). Glenn Perlow of NH Trusts (formerly Jordan Park) has a company in Maryland galled Red Granite Reality. What are the odds? Do you think for one moment that Glenn Perlow didn’t know about Ghislaine Maxwell? He came out of the Banking Commission, the AG’s office, and McLane Middleton, which got several millions in PPP loans, which Senator Jeanne Shaheen lobbied for. Her husband’s law firm, Shaheen & Gordon, got several millions, too. Of course.
When you control the media, you control the narrative, and when the judiciary works hand in glove with police, education administrators, non-profits, and the media, you have a closed circuit. These law firms have figured out exactly how to control the media. They sponsor it.
When the Pandora Papers news came out, McLane Middleton sponsored the program. Just like Sam Bankman-Fried sponsored Propublica, Vox, and Semafor. McLane Middleton had advertised their services for creating secret trusts — the trusts picked up in the Pandora Papers that New Hampshire powers that be don’t want the public to pay attention to.
Children disappear, children get raped, children get killed, adults get killed, and the State of New Hampshire pretends to investigate, but it doesn’t. It does enough to cover up a complete lack of professionalism that stems from top to bottom of the State’s courts and agencies.
Monopoly without accountability equals corruption. What do corrupt players do with their money? They hide it. They hide it in non-profits, in shell companies, in offshore accounts in the Bahamas, Aruba, Cyprus, the Virgin Islands, and elsewhere. They spend their guilty money on prostitutes, drugs, gambling, and fast cars. They sit on boards of non-profits, they go to dinners, and they congratulate each other with awards for their services. A large part of it is a show.
If you really want to know what the New Hampshire judiciary, Governor, and victims’ rights non-profit NHCADSV think about prostitutes, sex, drugs, drug trafficking, and domestic violence, the answer lies in their support of Marsy’s Law.
AG Gordon MacDonald endorsed it. Governor Chris Sununu was adamant that it should be pushed through. Chuck Douglas, the Chair of the New Hampshire Judicial Selection Committee, was paid $17,000 to be legal counsel for Marsy’s Law. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV was paid $48,000 to be Executive Director for it, while colleagues of hers at the NHCADSV and on the City of Concord Council, including Mayor Jim Bouley, were also paid for it. She felt perfectly comfortable with Henry T Nicholas III, who was funding it, and apparently, so did everyone else who took the money and didn’t bother or didn’t want to look at who was behind it.
Who is Henry T Nicholas III? He was arrested in 2018 and took an Alford Plea for drug trafficking in Las Vegas, where his girlfriend, Ashley Fargo (Wells Fargo) had to be revived after overdosing on some of the drugs he’d flown in on his jet. He was sued by one of his exes in 2016 for battery and other abuse. He kept an underground lair for his prostitutes and drugs, which he hid from his wife and children, and he was involved in Broadcom securities fraud (2007/8). He was featured in Vanity Fair in 2007, complete with a photograph of the tunnels under his house.
He was featured in another article with Jeffrey Epstein called “Billionaires in the Bedroom.”
Yet despite all of this, the AG, the Governor, the Chair of the City of Concord Public Safety Committee, and the Director of Public Affairs for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence were only too happy to take his money and support his fake “victims rights” law.
What they were actually only too willing to do was to accept bribes from a sex-obsessed drug trafficking securities fraudster who flew local District Attorneys on his plane to Las Vegas.
The people who endorsed Marsy’s Law in New Hampshire and who took money from Henry T Nicholas III are hardly different than those at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, the CIA, FBI, the Clintons, Trump, Lyn Forester de Rothschild, the Governor of the Virgin Islands and his wife Cecile De Jong who were all too happy to do business with Jeffrey Epstein even though they all knew (because it was pretty public) that he was a serious pedophile. He, too, gave to all sorts of non-profits and educational institutions, including MIT and Harvard, both in Cambridge, where the prostitution ring was just busted and which involved professors.
Do not believe for one minute that the New Hampshire powers that be in the judiciary, law firms, non-profits, or public office have the interests of children or families in mind. They have proven several times over (FRM Ponzi Scheme, Diocese of Manchester, YDC sex abuse cover-ups, Catholic Medical Center scandals, St. Paul’s School settlement, Dartmouth settlement, Exeter settlement…) that they are driven by money and corruption hiding behind do-good PR banners and non-profits. However, they can get federal grants to the State to carry on while protecting an extremely incestuous and nepotistic club. What was the need for AG Gordon MacDonald to argue that the list of police officers on the Laurie list should be kept private? If ever there was a sign that the courts themselves had something to hide, his statement was the indicator.
Social Justice starts with the truth, not with the crooked games that have been going on for too many decades in New England. You cannot fix immoral conduct with federal grants.
