Barbara Hantz Marconi might theoretically have a right to approach the Governor of New Hampshire, but Governor Sununu has ignored every email I have sent regarding corruption in the courts.
The difference? Barbara Hantz-Marconi is not an ordinary citizen. She was appointed to the NH Supreme Court by Governor Sununu and appointed to lead the Governor Sununu’s Commission on DV & SA. She, therefore, had privileged access to the Governor that no ordinary citizen would have, and it has been proven that we don’t have this access with the automatic replies that I get from his office but no follow-up about my serious concerns about the integrity of the courts, including the supreme court and including Gordon MacDonald.
Thanks to Claire for the Op-Ed – send yours to steve@granitegrok.com
Gordon MacDonald was also Governor Sununu’s pick for the Supreme Court despite the fact that he wasn’t qualified (from my reading) per the requirements posted by the court. As AG, he was head of the LEACT commission ordered by Governor Sununu despite the fact that he used his position as AG to argue against the release of the Laurie List and to defy the ruling/recommendation of Judge Charles Temple.
Gordon MacDonald argued to uphold NH v Owen Labrie to the Supreme Court in September 2018 and November 2018. Barbara Hantz Marconi was one of the three judges (the others recused themselves presumably for conflicts of interest or knowledge of how crooked the case was) who heard the appeals and denied them. On the same day that MacDonald argued to uphold NH v Owen Labrie, he announced the settlement agreement with St. Paul’s School after the conclusion of the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and report on St. Paul’s School.
He failed to disclose to the Supreme Court that he had a conflict of interest in the case because he hired Concord PD Julie Curtin to work on the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation. She was working for him when he argued to uphold the convictions against Owen Labrie. She had been the primary investigator in Labrie’s case and, as proven in trial testimony, lied on her sworn affidavit about the SANE nurse report (corrected by the SANE nurse), provided redacted Facebook posts, which amounted to a Brady Violation because the unredacted post presented by the defense undermined and contradicted the prosecutor’s claims.
The prosecutor admitted that she had never seen the unredacted version of the post, which had a “like” by Susan P. Prout underneath a photo of Owen Labrie and Chessy Prout from a party at St Paul’s School. The Prosecution had presented an argument to the court that Chessy Prout and Owen Labrie were strangers when the opposite was true, and Susan Prout approved a photo of them both together.
Gordon MacDonald failed to acknowledge to the Supreme Court in his application for the judgeship that he still held a business with Gordon Humphrey, who he included as one of his referees, despite stating that he had no conflicts of interest. In fact, per the Secretary of State files open to the public, he is still listed at Nixon Peabody as the agent for Gordon Humphrey’s company.
Gordon MacDonald referred plaintiffs of YDC abuse to the NHCADSV in full knowledge that his own law firm, Nixon Peabody, provided pro bono legal counsel to the NHCADSV. It was Nixon Peabody who then hired Joelle Wiggin from the NHCADSV to work with David Vicinanzno of Nixon Peabody to sue the State for David Meehan.
Gordon MacDonald ordered the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School after the NHCADSV (his law firm’s client) lobbied him for it. David Vicinanzo of Nixon Peabody represented members of St Paul’s School (including, I believe, Rector Michael Hirschfeld) and his client NHCADSV got a contract with the school out of the Settlement agreement announced by Gordon MacDonald. David Vicinanzo commended Judge Richard McNamara for keeping the investigation report private despite the school’s waiver of privacy and despite the fact that the school published its investigation into historic sex abuse.
In a Jane Doe v St Paul’s School suit filed on May 11, 2018, by Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas Esq, there is a reference to the felony-level sexual assault of the senior administrator’s 13-year-old son by an 18-year-old student (a female I believe by the name of Brooke Avery who was suspended). If David Vicinanzo represented Michael Hirschfeld, then this presents a serious ethical problem for the State, Nixon Peabody, David Vicinanzo, Gordon MacDonald, as well as the School, which was represented by former AG Michael Delaney, who withdrew his application to the First Circuit after it was reported to the US Senate Judiciary Committee by Owen Labrie’s accuser – State Witness Chessy Prout – that he had tampered with state witnesses during the Labrie trial and that the prosecutor, after having been informed of this tampering, allowed these witnesses to testify anyway.
Gordon MacDonald’s AG office was passing around a “manuscript” in January 2020 among Geoffrey Ward, Jane Young, Anne Edwards and Julie Curtin. And they were making notes on it. I discovered this after receiving emails in a Right To Know Request a few months ago.
That “manuscript” appears to be “Notes on a Silencing” – the memoir by St Paul’s alum Lacy Crawford. Concord PD Julie Curtin told her that her case was the “smoking gun” at St Paul’s School. Shortly before the book was published in June 2020, Gordon MacDonald’s AG office wrote to the publishers, Little Brown, to reprimand them for not checking with his office before including two chapters referencing Concord PD Julie Curtin (working for him when he wrote the letter) and Concord PD Sean Ford who, per the book, were authorized to go into St Paul’s School and obtain Lacy Crawford’s student files (which they then withheld from her). They did this with the authorization of his office, and they did it without obtaining a warrant. The Concord Monitor published an article about this in June 2020, which has been removed or disabled in the last few months – I believe at the request of Gordon MacDonald or US Attorney Jane Young.
On Page 350 of “Notes on a Silencing,” there is a reference to another police detective who was involved in the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation. That detective is James F McLaughlin, except his name had been removed. He’s identifiable by the fact that he was brought out of retirement and had worked on the Diocese of Manchester cases. The Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s was completed in August 2018 – two months after James F McLaughlin’s name was on the Laurie List and the same month Gordon MacDonald argued to keep the Laurie List private. I believe that the reason that James F McLaughlin’s name is not included on page 350 of “Notes on a Silencing” has to do with editorial input from AG Gordon MacDonald’s office in January 2020 when he knew that McLaughlin’s name was on the Laurie List.
Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28 or more Laurie List officers after ignoring John Scippa, me, and Rep. Susan Homola about concerns regarding Julie Curtin. The email correspondence I have obtained from the AG’s office reveals that Jane Ward followed up with Geoffrey Ward again in the summer of 2021, asking him to respond to my concerns, and he said he would do so. But he never did. He deleted police files instead, and Curtin left the AG office for the Epping Police Department. She left Epping PD after I filed a complaint with Epping PD about her history of dishonesty – whether related or not, I have no idea. Now, she works for the Diocese of Manchester, a client of Nixon Peabody and, therefore, of David Vicinanzo, who also represents the NHCADSV.
The entire reason that Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV and the City of Concord Council led the social media and phone campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing the interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019 was to prevent the public from hearing firsthand from one of the attorneys suing St Paul’s School and his attempt to bribe Owen Labrie in August 2017 (one month after the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation began). He was working directly with Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV, who were working directly with Concord PD, the AG’s office, Chuck Douglas, and Steven J Kelly Esq – the attorneys suing the school. Working with the NHCADSV as well as the Concord Monitor was Alyssa D’Andrea who now works for the NHCADSV directly.
The Attorney who contacted Owen Labrie in 2017 was Stephen D Silverman Esq, who had his license to practice law suspended by the DC Bar in 2014 for using media to influence the Doe v Cabrera sexual assault case. In his August 2017 call to Owen Labrie, Silverman wanted Owen Labrie’s help to get intel on St. Paul’s School in order to go after the school’s deep pockets. He admitted to Labrie that the true victim of statutory rape was not his client, Chessy Prout, but the son of the rector of St Paul’s School. He admitted that he had exculpatory evidence, including police evidence, which had been denied to Labrie, and he admitted that Labrie would not believe the crooked deals that Concord Police were making re St Paul’s School. That means that Concord Police, the civil attorneys, the prosecutors, the NHCADSV, and the courts were involved in racketeering and rigging to favor financial gain over due process and civil rights.
Silverman was introduced to NH v Owen Labrie by Steven J Kelly Esq (his then partner), who was introduced by Laura L Dunn Esq, who was recommended to the Prout family in June 2014 before PD Julie Curtin had ever contacted Owen Labrie. When she did contact Owen Labrie a few days later, she told his mother, who asked if they should have an attorney, that an attorney wasn’t necessary. So she introduced the Prouts to an attorney before meeting with Labrie, whom she denied one to.
The City of Concord Council approves the budget for police investigations, including witness payments for a Grand Jury. It has never been disclosed how much money was used for the Grand Jury Investigation lobbied for by the NHCADSV, which wanted a contract with the school and kickbacks from the lawsuit settlements. Was it state money, federal money, or city money? It was not the NHCADSV’s money.
It has never been disclosed who paid Shaheen & Gordon (Timothy McLaughlin) to threaten me with a defamation suit on behalf of Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV after I made statements to Russ Rilee Esq regarding my belief that the NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton, along with Gordon MacDonald, Chuck Douglas, and Concord PD Julie Curtin, were involved in a “Kids for Cash” type scheme. The NHCADSV’s IRS 990 lists the sum of $0 for legal fees.
Neither Shaheen & Gordon nor the NHCADSV have filed any paperwork that would be required under RSA 15 for services of value over a certain amount. The AG’s office has denied paying for it. Timothy McLaughlin left Shaheen & Gordon a few days after I filed a bar complaint against him. I have no idea where he ended up. He is the son of AG Phil McLaughlin, who ordered the investigation into the Diocese, which involved James F McLaughlin as the Detective along with Nixon Peabody (Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo) representing the Diocese and sorting out the settlements.
Monsignor Edward Arsenault was their liaison on the inside and personally sorted out 250 claims. Edward Arsenault was released early from jail (he was supposed to go to prison per Jane Young’s post on the NH DOJ site), with all his $300K restitution paid off. Ironically, David Vicinanzo opened a company called “Worldwide Language Resources” a few months after he reported to jail with Mary Arsenault and then left the company as its agent around the time that Arsenault had the rest of his sentence vacated by Judge Diane Nicolosi (the Laurie List case)…Jane Young shook his hand on his way to jail and said he would be allowed to continue consulting from behind bars. Was David Vicinanzo running a collecting company for him under Worldwide Language Resources?
The corruption is beyond.
