Why did Cheshire County Attorney Chris McLaughlin hire Laurie List PD James McLaughlin when he knew he was on the Laurie List, and why did Chris McLaughlin transfer Robert LaMontagne’s case against James F. McLaughlin to Grafton County Attorney Martha Hornick when he knew full well that Hornick would have to come back to his office to look at LaMontagne’s files? And why did Martha Hornick state that she looked at the file of McLaughlin in camera in Cheshire County, saw exculpatory material, but denied that material to Robert LaMontagne? She had a Brady v Maryland obligation to give it to him, but did not.
Why did AG Phil McLaughlin hire James McLaughlin for the Diocese investigation in 2002 when he knew he had been “the government” that had sexualized minors to entrap Paul Gamache (ruled on by the First Circuit in 1998)?
Why did AG Gordon MacDonald hire James F. McLaughlin for the St Paul’s investigation in 2017, and why, after James F. McLaughlin was officially added to the Laurie List in June 2018, did AG MacDonald not only fail to disclose this before the St Paul’s report was complete but also publicly argue to keep the Laurie List private in August 2018? He then went on to defy Judge Charles Temple’s April 2019 opinion that the Laurie List should be public. And he used public dollars to uphold his position in front of the Supreme Court later that year.
Would AG MacDonald have kept his job as AG if it came out that he knowingly hired a Laurie List officer and failed to disclose it? I doubt it.
Would AG MacDonald have succeeded to the Supreme Court if this came out? I also doubt it.
Was the September 2019 Supreme Court hearing about the Laurie List a game of Kabuki theatre? The Supreme Court kicked it down to the lower courts. Macdonald was placed as head of the LEACT commission, which failed to preserve the privacy of citizens who wrote in and instead enabled the targeting of those citizens by nonprofits represented by AG MacDonald’s law firm, Nixon Peabody, and also Shaheen & Gordon. I know because I was targeted for writing about my concerns regarding the coercion of minors by police and investigators.
Robert LaMontagne’s daughter or granddaughter testified that she was taken from her father and that she and her siblings were trafficked from one home to another multiple times. Robert LaMontage paid child support while in prison, only to find the State lost track of his children, and so the money never got to them. The State removed his children, trafficked them, and then lost track of them, and it all started with a dishonest cop who they were well aware was dishonest and dangerous with a loaded weapon (he shot a keg of beer at a teenage party).
Every case involving James F. McLaughlin should be automatically reviewed, and if he was the primary investigator, it should be overturned. He was dishonest, and Keene Police documented it in 1985 and 1987 – before his investigation into Robert LaMontagne.
You cannot look at the mess of DCYF without looking at the history of James F. McLaughlin and Sylvia Gale from DCYF, who fabricated claims about the murder of a child in Florida by Father Gordon MacRae and wrote these claims to James F. McLaughlin, who never bothered to verify them. The claims were false. MacRae never went to Florida, and Florida police confirmed there was no such case. McLaughlin then got Sylvia Gale’s colleague’s (Patria Grover) adopted and drug addicted adult son to fabricate a story against MacRae. His name was Thomas Grover. He later admitted to his stepson in YDC that he made the stories up because he had been told he could get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Diocese, which is tied to DCYF as a child placement agency via RSA169c 3. This fact is part of a Habeas Corpus filed by Attorney Kathy Green, which includes sworn affidavits obtained by an ex-FBI officer in a three-year investigation.
Those were all ignored.
Father Edward Arsenault personally sorted 250 claims against the Diocese, developing his relationship with Nixon Peabody, who got the business from Sheehan & Phinney. Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo settled hundreds of lawsuits filed by Chuck Douglas and Peter Hutchins. They knew that some of them were false (as documented in the WSJ by Dorothy Rabinowitz).
Father Edward Arsenault was arrested in 2014 for defrauding the Diocese, CMC and a dead priest’s estate. Jane Young shook his hand and announced a 4-10-year state prison sentence, then transferred him to Cheshire County Jail within two months and secured his release on home confinement after only two years. She had a private phone call with Gordon MacDonald about it in 2016. Macdonald had contacted her as he represented the Diocese. All this is in RTK.
The Vatican removed Arsenault’s “Monsignor” and priest status while not removing Father Fordon MacRae’s, despite Arsenault’s efforts. Arsena was let out of jail early under Judge Diane Nicolosi, who was the prosecutor in the Carl Laurie case, after which the Laurie List is named. And he was released entirely under AG Gordon MacDonald, who was his former business partner for the Diocese claims.
AG MacDonald dismissed the YDC cases for “victim negligence “ in 2020, but then along came his ex-partner David Vicinanzo, who, with Chuck Douglas, pleaded for the $100 million YDC fund. AG Formella endorsed it without asking about Vicinanzo’s Conflicts of Interest since his law firm represented the Diocese (tied to DCYF under RSA169 c 3 VII) and he represented the NHCADSV, which receives millions from DCYF for training, etc and has the contract with DOC (which includes YDC) for the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
It transpires that until 2024, Gordon MacDonald was still listed as the Nixon Peabody agent for a company managed by Gordon Humphrey. This begs the question as to whether MacDonald retained his equity partnership in Nixon Peabody after he became AG and after he joined the Supreme Court, and whether he would financially benefit from settlements against YDC achieved by Nixon Peabody.
In 2024 I filed a complaint about these conflicts of interest with the New Hampshire Attorney Disciplinary Office without realizing that MacDonald controls it via the Administrative Office of the Courts in which he had installed Dianne Martin as Director: and that Jane Young, his former assistant AG (who shook Arsenault’s hand when he took his plea deal and allowed him to continue consulting behind bars) would become or was on the ADO screening committee.
I noticed that in December 2024, shortly after I filed my complaint,
MacDonald was quietly “disqualified “ from hearing YDC cases, and the Secretary of State removed the Gordon Humphrey company, for which he was listed as agent for NP, from the SoS site.
I currently have a case against Jane Young for conflicts of interest for representing SCCJ MacDonald re Dianne Martin. The ADO had to send it to the Professional Conduct Committee, and it has been determined that the ADO can’t handle it due to conflicts of interest.
I have a second complaint pending against Demetrias Aspirias III, Esq at Drummond Woodsum that ADO has also admitted it can’t handle due to conflicts of interest. Drummond Woodsum represents the ADO, AOC. And it also represents the NHMA.
When there is not enough separation of powers, accountability is lost, children get trafficked, due process is thrown out, and racketeering takes place to cover up the crimes because the money is too big to fail…
Robert LaMontagne’s case is important. The State has ignored its legal obligations to him under Brady v Maryland and under 91-A. His case is key to exposing the Pandora’s box of corruption that the State is trying so hard to hide to prevent gross liability and the financial cost that would come with it.
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