Re: Apropos of “State Accused of Coverup in New Saddleback Mountain Retreat Lawsuit.”
US Attorney Jane Young completely ignored Ashley George’s complaint regarding what was going on at Spaulding Academy and Family Services in 2024. Ashley wrote to Nancy West at the time. Ashley’s concerns to US Attorney Jane Young are outlined in the email below. Ashley was let go in what appears to be a retaliatory move for protesting for YDC victims.
Additionally, in 2020/2021, Anna Carrigan wrote to me after she lost her Anna Carrigan v. New Hampshire DCYF lawsuit.
Specifically, she stated in an email to me dated September 10, 2020:
“I am interested that you have identified key NH players that myself and others doing work in NH find troubling (but we are definitely in the minority on), and I am comfortable saying that AG MacDonald and Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV are two specific people who I think are doing things to directly or indirectly hurt child protection victims in this state, and that our crazy family and criminal court system is completely dysfunctional and supports that in happening, along with a local media that purposely helps keep the public blind to things happening behind the scenes. I am a government social worker whistle-blower, one of several, who faced retaliation by the State if NH for speaking up about the truth of NH’s child protection system and is suing them, so I’ve seen and know about a lot of stuff that goes on that I feel like most people would have a hard time even conceiving is true.”
I also spoke to Russ Rilee in May 2021 after he lost his initial David Meehan et Al lawsuit and outlined the pattern of what I had discovered. He told me, “Nothing would surprise me.” But then David Vicinanzo (the NHCADSV’s attorney and Gordon MacDonald’s ex-partner from Nixon Peabody) joined him, and they used David Meehan to get the $100 million fund, which they then used as a backdrop to go shopping for clients while their original client hasn’t been paid (except for reports that Vicinanzo felt bad, so he put a hat out to the other attorneys profiting off YDC to cobble together $2 million for the Meehans while the Supreme Court decision is pending).
I have the letters sent by Nixon Peabody to the jails and prisons soliciting claimants and encouraging them to go to trial and not take settlements. These same attorneys also directed the YDC claimants towards predatory loans at 34% per year in interest. The AG directed these claimants to the NHCADSV, who directed them to their own legal counsel at Nixon Peabody, Shaheen & Gordon, and to Chuck Douglas.
Why don’t journalists in NH ask what the NHCADSV was doing all these years, since they have the contract with the DCYF and with the DOC for abuse prevention training, and yet, at least in 2024, abuse was still going on in state-contracted youth facilities? Shockingly, it’s taking the agencies months to turn up RTK requests for training materials and credentials of the people training.
I am informed that the foundational documents for the NHCADSV identify specifically that NHBA founded the DV coalition for the sole identification that there was opportunity for unrepresented potential clients for lawsuits.
How nice: Get federal dollars under VAWA and VOCA, work with the NHCADSV to create the case, and conveniently forget that the NHCADSV is on the protocol and contracted with significant fees for YDC, DCYF, and DOC for PREA and training against sex abuse and domestic violence.
What are children getting for the millions spent by DHHS/DCYF on NHCADSV, exactly?
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