Summary:
- NHCADSV criticized Jane Doe/“Cornell 7” coverage while ignoring its own roles in Rapuano & Does v. Dartmouth, the St. Paul’s grand jury, and the Phillips Exeter case
- At Phillips Exeter, DCYF (NHCADSV contractor) admitted deleting sex-abuse files
- Amanda Grady Sexton (NHCADSV) said “no stone was left unturned” and praised the school while on Hassan commissions and Sen. Shaheen’s campaign
- Hassan won her Senate race amid a reported media blackout.
- Jane Doe reportedly went to the DA with a victim advocate and Title IX coordinator—roles NHCADSV has pushed—and her DA statements conflicted with her later civil suit
- Title IX offices built a legal/media industry, contaminated cases before criminal review
- In NH, victim advocates are said to be agents of prosecutors, not complainants
- Rapuano/Dartmouth: AG MacDonald’s reported investigation produced no AG documents on RTK;
- After the ~$14M 2019 settlement: Prof. David Bucci’s suicide (NYT called him a #MeToo “casualty”)
- St. Paul’s grand jury: NHCADSV lobbied for it and got a contract; civil suits (same lawyers) settled with NDAs
- Gordon MacDonald (later Chief Justice, endorsed by Sexton) and associates are anti-due-process
- End claim: remove lobbyist advocates and Title IX coordinators, restore due process; goals alleged to be VAWA/VOCA contracts and grants, not accountability
You can’t escape the news about Jane Doe and the “Cornell 7”
The NHCADSV made a predictable and uneducated statement about it on social media. Of course, they forgot their own role in the Rapuano & Does v. Dartmouth lawsuit and the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School, which resulted in no criminal charges despite assertions from the AG that there was enough to criminally charge.
And then there is their role in the Phillips Exeter Academy cover-up. The DCYF (for whom they are a contractor) admitted to deleting files of sex abuse at the school.
Governor Maggie Hassan’s husband, Tom Hassan, was the principal, and AG Joseph Foster declined to prosecute. He had been appointed by her. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV publicly stated that “no stone was left unturned” and praised the school – she was on Gov. Hassan’s commissions…
Several years later, a teacher who was having an ongoing unlawful sexual relationship with a student during the time covered by that investigation was found guilty of sexual abuse and is now serving a 12-year state prison sentence.
The investigation was not thorough. It only found what they wanted and covered up the rest. Hassan had a Senate campaign to win at the time, and Amanda Grady Sexton was on her pal Senator Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee and a Dem Caucus Rep. Politico named her one of the most important political activists in New England in 2016 – the same year the US DOJ audited and found NH failed to prevent fraud and abuse of VAWA money… There was a reported news blackout on Phillips Exeter Academy. Police were told to stand back from making arrests. Hassan won the election.
(Washington Free Beacon has the most thorough coverage. NH News outlets were fairly silent.)
When Jane Doe reported the incidents at Cornell to the DA, she was reportedly accompanied by a victim’s advocate and the Title IX coordinator – Exactly the people the NHCADSV has lobbied successfully for in New Hampshire and nationwide. She made statements released by the DA that contradict the statements in her civil suit two years later.
Victim advocates state that trauma comes through at different times. I don’t disagree, but therein lies the problem that the NHCADSV and activists don’t want to admit.
Had Ithaca Police and the DA’s office been involved from the start, without the involvement of Title IX coordinators – who can get trained and accredited in 2-4 days by Brett Sokolow’s ATIXA organization – DUE PROCESS would have taken place.
Instead, as a result of the “Dear Colleague “ Title IX federal directive that VP Joe Biden introduced at UNH on April 4, 2011, victims advocates, including the NHCADSV, have been vehemently against due process. And despite new regulations that actually did get proper review with 124,000 public comments, the 2020 Secretary DeVos Title IX rules have allowed choices in how investigations are done.
Brett Sokolow registered his ATIXA organization on April 1, 2011. He’s built it into an empire. Elite colleges have cadres of Title IX coordinators. What are they really? Fancy HR personnel. Their jobs depend on the institutions hiring them. Protecting their reputation.
Victims Advocacy organizations inserting themselves into these campus sexual abuse situations created a massive industry for attorneys and has allowed media mob justice to take hold.
Meanwhile, the lives of 8 young people from Cornell have become a national feeding frenzy. To say it’s dangerous would be a massive understatement.
The decision to use it as a political tool for AG Laetitia James is even worse.
Jane Doe is allegedly “hanging on by a thread,” according to her attorney. And the families and attorneys for the Cornell 7 are receiving death threats.
Nobody has been charged. Nobody has had due process. Not Jane Doe. Not any member of the Cornell 7. And anything that happens now has already been contaminated by the civil investigation before the DA got involved and the media narrative.
Were these students ever told they had the right to remain silent when the Title IX coordinator got involved? Extremely doubtful. Did the Title IX coordinator act as an agent of the police when she went with Jane Doe to take her statement? That’s a question we should ponder. Who was the client? In NH, the victim advocates are agents of the prosecutors. The client is the prosecutor, not the complainant, despite the optics of the job title.
In Rapuano & Does v. Dartmouth, the original news notices stated that the AG (MacDonald) was launching an investigation. He never did. I filed a RTK for documents the AG’s office had, and they didn’t have any. It was just a line thrown into a news article to bolster the validity of the class action MeToo suit. Who was paying for the media PR to go with the suit? Times Up/NWLC. (Reported in the Union Leader). Yes, the same organization that gave advice to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo when he was accused of sexual abuse. Laetitia James said the allegations were credible. No DA ever prosecuted. How credible were the allegations then? Where was the due process and how many lives on all sides were harmed?
The NHCADSV and its branch, WISE, were named as beneficiaries in the Dartmouth settlement. The publicly stated resolution was that Dartmouth would work more closely with WISE. But a few months after the announcement of the settlement in August 2019, a few incidents happened that should make us all very uncomfortable and demand answers.
1) Professor David Bucci committed suicide in October 2019. The New York Times described him as a “casualty of scorched earth #MeToo legal strategy.” His wife said the negative media coverage surrounding the Rapuano & Does v. Dartmouth suit contributed to his downward spiral. He had been accused multiple times in the suit of knowing of sexual abuse in his department but not reporting it. He claimed he didn’t know but Dartmouth Board of Trustees (which included Governor Sununu), wouldn’t let him defend himself against the accusations in the suit. The AG did not launch an inquiry. One of the civil attorneys spoke about how he was using the media in the Union Leader: Steven J. Kelly, Esq., also co-authored a guide to Pretrial publicity with Amanda Grady Sexton that’s on the NCVI site.
Her bio in that document states that she trains police and prosecutors on communications strategy. So you have a paid lobbyist training NH PD and Prosecutors to shape the pretrial narrative for a self/described “one-stop-shop” attorney, Steven J. Kelly, for civil suits to tie in. What could possibly go wrong???? Kelly was being promoted to the AG’s office by the NHCADSV (per RTK) through all of this.
2) Maha Hassan Alshawi went on hunger strike in 2020 for three weeks because she claimed the college ignored her sexual assault. A thousand student signatures asking for her to receive due process for her allegations of sexual assault by a professor went ignored. Eventually, the college hired “outside counsel” to investigate and found no wrongdoing. But there was no due process, and WISE and NHCADSV were nowhere to be found despite the news reports of her alleged plight. The AG did not launch an inquiry.
3) A student committed suicide allegedly after she reported being sexually assaulted at Dartmouth.
4) Another female student (who Inmet) sued Dartmouth because its Title IX office ignored her complaints about an intruder climbing into her dorm to sexually assault her. She had never heard of WISE throughout the whole ordeal. This was 2021.
5) The President of Dartmouth, Philip Hanlon, retired early.
6) Every Voice Matters Coalition used Dartmouth (thanking the NHCADSV) to campaign for HB705- banning at-home rape kits. Rape kits students might have been able to use to counter an NHCADSV-trained SANE nurse from refusing to give them one. The SANE nurses are not even aware of that law, as we found out in the hearing of HB1633, introduced by Rep. Ellen Read.
As soon as that $14 million settlement happened in 2019 and the lawyers and NHCADSV got their money, they just moved on. Nothing changed.
If the AG had opened a proper investigation when Rapuano sued Dartmouth in 2017, it’s conceivable that the results would have been completely different, and several lives might have been saved, and some professors might be in jail.
Read that again.
The Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School was supposed to bring transparency and accountability. The NHCADSV lobbied for it and got a contract out of it. The lawyers (same ones who got the $14 million settlement out of Dartmouth) got several lawsuits- all settled out of court. One of them had the added advantage of being Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee (Chuck Douglas). And on that committee with him was Lyn Schollett of the NHCADSV.
None of the civil suits made it to trial. NDAs and settlements were made, and nobody was any the wiser as to what really went down. Victims were publicly frustrated by the lack of transparency (Lacy Crawford, whose complaint ended up not being docketed because of collusion between the AG’s office, private attorneys, and police violating professional codes of conduct)
The AGs office promised the report on St Paul’s School would be made public. The school signed off on it becoming public. But it was the NHCADSV’s own attorney, David Vicinanzo, who successfully petitioned to block its release. Not to protect victims, but because he represented “most, if not all “ of the respondents/defendants, per the Associate AG. And he also represented one complainant. The Associate AG and AG did nothing about the conflicts of interest despite notifying Vicinanzo of these conflicts. The NHCADSV got a contract. The NH Bar Attorney Disciplinary Office has completely dismissed any complaints about the conflicts of interest of the attorneys.
Gordon MacDonald was the AG. Endorsed for his position as Chief Justice on the Supreme Court by Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV. Jane Young, his legal counsel, VP of NHBA, on the screening committee for the Attorney Disciplinary Office, was the Associate AG.
They are collectively and individually well documented for being against due process.
If you want accountability and transparency in these campus sexual assault cases, remove the lobbyist victims advocates and Title IX coordinators. Bring back due process and common sense.
Gordon MacDonald attended Dartmouth as an undergraduate and was allegedly in the Fraternity that “Animal House” was based on. He went to Cornell Law School where he co-authored a 1994 thesis with “Strat Katz” called “Is Shredded Trash Private?”.
Currently, Gordon MacDonald has managed to remain under the cover of medical leave while his attorneys helped craft messages, including one to the Governor admitting his violation of judicial conduct rules. He himself has been vehemently against due process, partnering with the NHCADSV for Marsy’s Law, sponsored by Henry T. Nicholas III, who kept an underground lair for sex- and drug-fueled orgies.
Bring back common sense and due process and get rid of these easily influenced public officials who take dark money from shady, abusive billionaires and lobby behind the front of victims advocacy organizations.
The right people will go to jail. Lives will get saved. Mental health issues will go down, and schools and legal systems will be happier, albeit not as flush with cash. Administrative costs will go down, and schools will become more affordable.
Common sense = don’t get drunk, don’t do drugs, don’t combine the two. And never engage in sex on campus with Title IX and Victims Advocates determining your fate, not due process.
How successful could a campaign be with this simple message on every campus, in every sorority and every fraternity?
Due Process = did an incident happen? Is the complainant the victim? Is the accused the perpetrator? Or was someone else the victim and somebody else the perpetrator, as we discovered in “Mr. Weber’s Confession “ in Vanity Fair- about the framing of a retired teacher whose victim, the author, claimed nothing happened. The training that led to this debacle came from the NHCADSV’s HAVEN. The school? Phillips Exeter Academy.
Narratives are no more than stories. Police and prosecutors have a duty to due process. New Hampshire’s current SART materials don’t mention due process once. That’s a problem whether you are a complainant or a defendant in these sexual assault cases. And thus politics and favoritism decide who will get off and who will be framed.
Could there actually be a fair criminal trial now re Cornell? Highly doubtful. So what is the end goal here? What was the end goal with Dartmouth, St. Paul’s, Phillips Exeter Academy? Contracts for lobbyists at NHCADSV who help secure federal grants under VAWA and VOCA. Nothing more.
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