If I hadn’t heard rumors about Geno Marconi’s concerns and, some would say, opposition to the Gulf of Maine Wind Boondoggle and Pease development plans for Rye Harbor, I’d think this was legitimate. I don’t.
Concord, NH – New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella announces that New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted by the Merrimack County Grand Jury for two felonies and five misdemeanors relating to her attempts to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband, Geno Marconi.
“No person is above the law, and the evidence in this case required investigation and presentation to the grand jury,” said Attorney General Formella. “The decision to charge a sitting Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court was not made lightly, and it comes after careful and thoughtful deliberation. It is my hope that the public will be reassured that all individuals, including public officials, are treated equally under the law.”
Justice Hantz Marconi is charged with two class B felonies – one count of Attempt to Commit Improper Influence and one count of Criminal Solicitation of Improper Influence. Justice Hantz Marconi is also charged with five class A misdemeanors – two counts of Criminal Solicitation of Misuse of Position, one count of Criminal Solicitation of Official Oppression, one count of Official Oppression, and one count of Obstructing Government Administration.
Geno is the accused’s husband.
And I confess that I cannot say what State Supreme Court Justice Marconi (a Sununu appointee) did that earned her these indictments, but we do know this: rumor has it that her husband wasn’t making the people in power happy. The state likely started plans to go after him (which they did – he got pushed out), and she didn’t like it. Whatever that looks like has resulted in these indictments.
And maybe they are legit as it goes, but these are, of course, just allegations. Pressure would be my guess because?
At the same time, we have two projects of which (we’ll call them ‘Developers’) are hungry to take advantage. There is a bunch of that “free money” out there that, in reality, is interest-loaded debt on the backs of our grandchildren – not that they care. The “free money” is waiting to be spent on a massive Gulf of Maine Wind project (fast-tracked in violation of any number of rules or laws) and the development of Rye Harbor, which, as far as I can tell, no one in Rye wants.
If anyone has a story to tell me, now looks like a good time.
