As news outlets report on the resignation of Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, the focus should be on the appearance of multiple conflicts of interest for his counsel, Jane Young.
Jane Young’s representation of MacDonald is ostensibly an interest in representing her own interests on the screening committee of the ADO under the AOC under her client, MacDonald. AND her position as Vice President on the Board of Governors for the NH Bar Association, authorized by the Supreme Court and her client, Chief Justice MacDonald.
Jane Young’s bio states expertise in crisis communications. Crisis communications were apparent from the AG’s office when she was MacDonald’s deputy, and he was AG- for example, when Lacy Crawford’s memoir “Notes on a Silencing “ named Concord PD Julie Curtin in saying she had got the go-ahead to get Crawford’s school files from St. Paul’s School. Slight problem: she got them without a warrant at the direction of Jane Young and Gordon MacDonald in the AG’s office.
Then she made calls to the alleged perpetrators of Lacy Crawford’s sexual assault, but no charges were made, and MacDonald suddenly removed her and her cohort – Sean Ford- from the case and from the St. Paul’s School investigation in general. That was in the fall of 2017. Lacy Crawford’s case was excluded from the final report, which Judge Richard McNamara declared would remain secret in September 2019.
A few months prior, Julie Curtin and Sean Ford “retired” from the Concord Police Department. Curtin showed up with a job offer a few months later – tracking rape kits – in the AG’s office under Jane Young and Gordon MacDonald. She also got a job at the Epping Police Department but disappeared after I forwarded my ethics complaint about her that I had sent to John Scippa at Police Standards & Training (and he had forwarded to Associate AG Jane Young, who promised me her colleague Geoffrey Ward would handle it, but instead deleted the files of 28 police officers).
Jane Young’s interests in representing Gordon MacDonald as a private attorney while serving in court-appointed positions start to look like Peter and the Dam. Her finger is in the dam that prevents the rot of the entire system from spilling out for all the world to see.
It has been asked whether or not the public can trust statements made by the Supreme Court, AOC, ADO, or even the JCC in light of the MacDonald-Dianne Martin and MacDonald-Anna Barbara Hantz -Marconi matters.
I don’t think we need to wait for an official answer- the short answer is NO.
We can’t trust the NH Bar either as long as Jane Young serves as Vice President. She’s a gatekeeper. The ADO failed to inform me of its conflict of interest because she was on the screening committee until I appealed in January 2026.
That appeal was after JCC started investigating MacDonald re: Dianne Martin. But even then, the optics are extremely poor: on July 30, 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee/Supreme Court wrote to say that three interim justices had been found for the Supreme Court. The chief interim justice was supposed to be randomly picked. Really?
Tina Nadeau gets picked to adjudicate and decide not to docket when she was the superior court Chief Justice, precisely when Young and MacDonald set out in their extremely compromised selective witch hunt at St Paul’s School. The very next day, MacDonald’s medical leave is announced and Jane You g can’t be reached for comment. Doesn’t that sound like a masterpiece in crisis communications?
Lest we forget, in 2014 Jane Young personally posted on the NH DOJ site that “Monsignor” Edward Arsenault was sentenced to 4-10 years in State Prison for his guilty plea for defrauding the Diocese of Manchester, the Catholic Medical Center and a dead priest’s estate. Her statement ended up being a lie in less than two months. He was transferred to Keene jail and after a conversation with Gordon MacDonald in 2016 (MacDonald representing the Diocese at the time for Nixon Peabody) his sentence was reduced.
On April 4, 2017, Judge Diane Nicolosi (prosecutor in the infamous Carl Laurie case) released Arsenault to home confinement in Salem. He was released entirely when MacDonald was AG and Jane Young his deputy. His $288k in restitution was magically paid off. He took on a new name, Edward Bolognini, and worked with more nonprofits. One of those is Easter Seals in Maine.
What prisoner in NH can pay off $288k in restitution without special treatment by Jane Young and AG MacDonald?
Did the company that MacDonald’s former partner, David Vicinanzo, have something to do with how that $288k was collected for “consulting “? Bizarrely, Vicinanzo registered “Worldwide Language Resources LLC” with Mary Arsenault in August 2014. He appears to have removed himself
From the registration in 2019 – the year Arsenault was released from home confinement.
We don’t have any reason to trust anything from the NHBA, NH Supreme Court, AOC, ADO as long as Jane Young is tied to these.
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