Thank you, Nancy West, for the update on Jay Lucas and his pleading guilty to money laundering fraud.
Ironically, Jay Lucas came up in my research when I wrote the following article in Granite Grok in February 2024 about the strange case of Alex Talcott and his murder by his wife, who was also involved with and registering businesses with him. In looking into Alex Talcott’s companies, I was led straight to Jay Lucas.
I was contacted a while back by one of Alex Talcott’s creditors who informed me that he had been trying to go after Talcott’s estate for money he was owed. He told me that he had invested in one of Alex Talcott’s low cost housing businesses for the homeless and lost all his money. Alex Talcott, by his own account, was on the Governor’s commission to end homelessness aka “Council on Housing Stability”.
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Alex Talcott, J.D., is a founder and Co-Leading Partner of Lexdan LLC, a real estate private capital company with residential doors in ten states. His investments are active and Aggressive Passive™. He maintains a private client law practice and has been managing partner of a financial advisory with over half a billion dollars in client assets. Talcott has taught finance and business law at the university level for a decade and is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Notre Dame Law School. Alex was appointed by Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire to serve on the Council on Housing Stability, charged with reducing homelessness, increasing affordable housing, and promoting statewide economic development.”
But let’s look at some of the other members on that commission.
Other members of that commission are listed here.
One of those members is Helen Hanks from the DOC, who was forced to resign from the DOC after tampering with witnesses in a murder case in which one of her employees was charged.
Another of those members is Joe Ribsam, who resigned from DCYF in 2023 right as the YDC cases were ramping up:
Another of those members is Mayor Jim Bouley of Concord, whose lobby firm Dennehy & Bouley was engaged in lobbying to block HB111, which would have brought members of the public recourse to fight public corruption by public officials. Mayor Bouley led a letter with the signatures of 13 mayors to block the bipartisan bill. The NHMA (represented by Drummond Woodsum) also lobbied against it.
Drummond Woodsum also represents the Attorney Disciplinary Office and the Administrative Offices of the Court, which are controlled by the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald.
Other members of the Governor’s commission included the Mayor of Keene and the Mayor of Rochester who also signed Mayor Jim Bouley’s opposition to HB111 in 2021.
And heading the list of the Governor’s Commission for Housing Stability is Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV. She hired Shaheen & Gordon to intimidate me with a defamation suit in 2021 for stating that the NHCADSV was a “money laundering front,” inter alia. In 2024, Timothy McLaughlin, the attorney at Shaheen & Gordon who threatened me, left the law firm days after I filed a complaint with the Attorney Disciplinary Office for witness intimidation on behalf of a public official – Amanda Grady Sexton.
In light of the Jay Lucas pleas and the Governor’s commission for Housing Stability and who was on it; Alex Talcott and his relationship with Jay Lucas, it’s all worthy of a second look.
I’m informed that Andrew H Crews, who is also mentioned in the article I wrote in Granite Grok about Alex Talcott, is also under FBI investigation relating to Jay Lucas business.
I don’t know if that is true or not. But what’s interesting about Andrew H Crews is that he was or is President of NH Lottery, was Chair of the Children’s Advocacy Centers, was a director of Primary Bank, which gave several million in PPP Loans to Autofair, for which he was CEO. He stepped down from Autofair around the week that the US Senate Ways & Means Committee started speaking to Governors about the Pandora Papers. Per news articles in NH, NH had $932.5 billion in Pandora Papers accounts. A large auto company was referenced in one NH news article but not named. I couldn’t find Autofair in the Pandora Papers, but I did find it and Andrew Crews in the Paradise Papers in the Bahamas and Manchester, NH.
In the above Keene Sentinel article, you will find mention of Perspecta Trust, which was founded by Glenn Perlow, who was head of the NH Banking Commission, Deputy AG under Michael Delaney when the FRM Ponzi scheme was exposed, and the AG’s office’s negligence in it cited.
Glenn Perlow came out of McLane Middleton, which has advertised its business setting up offshore trusts, etc. McLane Middleton got over $6 million in PPP loans, and Michael Delaney was nominated by Senator Shaheen and Senator Hassan for the First Circuit but ultimately had to withdraw from consideration after the primary State Witness (Chessy Prout) in the high profile criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie informed the US Senate Judiiary Committee in January 2023 that he had been observed tampering with State Witnesses in the trial and that Amanda Grady Sexton (named in the letter) had also observed this but the news media which the NHCADSV controlled, never commented on it.
The prosecutors allowed these tampered witnesses to testify anyway. One of them, Andrew Thomson (a client of Jim Rosenberg at Shaheen & Gordon) was the son of the Chair of NH Charitable Trust Foundation – Lucy Hodder Esq. The prosecutor blocked a line of questioning to him and admitted that a deal had been made for him. She sealed that information and it was only known to the public 8 months after the trial, by which time convictions and sentencing had taken place.
Perspecta Trust/Glenn Perlow is behind Red Granite Reality in Maryland if you look at the company’s registration papers on opencorporates.com.
Ironically and very possibly coincidentally, there is a company called Granite Reality registered in New Hampshire that belongs to Ghislaine Maxwell (who was represented by Shaheen & Gordon when she was arrested). And there is a company called Red Granite Pictures, which is the company that financed “The Wolf of Wall Street” with laundered money from the 1MDB scandal.
What is the reality about Ponzi Schemes and money laundering behind charitable causes in New Hampshire?
Is Jay Lucas just the tip of the iceberg?
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