There is concern about the shortfall in funds needed for the complainants of YDC sexual abuse.
Please bear in mind that there does not seem to be any watchdog to vet the attorneys and which claims are real, which claims are false, and which claims are exaggerated.
We want to thank Claire Best for this Contribution. Submit yours to steve@granitegrok.com
Remember that the Bar Association’s treasurer, Peter Hutchins Esq, filed false claims against the Diocese of Manchester, which were exposed in the Wall Street Journal, leading to a lawsuit against the WSJ’s parent Company, Dow Jones Inc., by one of the claimants (the claimant lost and lost appeal).
It should be noted that it was Gordon MacDonald (at Nixon Peabody at the time) who was representing the Diocese for these claims and who asked Father Gordon MacRae if he would object to his name being used for them for quick settlements. Gordon MacRae gave the names of the claimants to the WSJ Journalist, who then published them, leading Gordon MacDonald to call Dorothy Rabinowitz, the journalist, to complain because the Diocese had NDAs with the complainants. But Gordon MacRae was not party to any NDA agreement and was prepared to expose them for being false and so was the WSJ.
Peter Hutchins Esq. advertises for claimants against the Diocese, St Pauls School, and Phillips Exeter Academy on his site, boasting that claimants don’t have to pay anything unless he gets a win and that he knows all the players. In all three cases, there are shenanigans, and it became about the money and not the transparency or justice. It was just a shopping trip for NH attorneys.
The NH Bar Association is also the NH Bar Referral Service. Peter Hutchins is the Treasurer.
Chuck Douglas is the Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee, and he also receives a number of these ambulance-chasing claims. How nice—he gets some favoritism from the judges he selected.
The fact that the State is considering bending towards the needs of these attorneys who work on contingency for claimants against the State for alleged YDC abuse without investigating the attorneys and their lack of ethics or their financial relationship with the NHCADSV or “independent investigators” who refer business to them is a failure in fiduciary duty by the State of New Hampshire, its justice system and to the taxpayers in New Hampshire who are footing the bill.
