{"id":196,"date":"2007-09-17T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=196"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:29:27","slug":"lunch-lady-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2007\/09\/17\/lunch-lady-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Lady Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week the Manchester Paper had a FRONT PAGE article about how softly our judicial system treats people who abused their position as a municipal employee.<\/p>\n

The $250,000.00 stolen from the Derry Economic Development Corp. by \u201cCherri\u201d Crawford landed her only a few months in a real jail.<\/p>\n

Ditto the Hampstead lunch lady who pilfered $10,000.00. (In NH anything under $50,000.00 shouldn\u2019t even be prosecuted if its taxpayer money, why bother.)<\/p>\n

But the Manchester Paper forgot, or maybe not, the El Primo thief of all time \u2013 Ashland\u2019s \u201cRosie\u201d McNamara.<\/p>\n

Remember Rosie? Here is a hint: the tax collector\/town clerk from Ashland you would NOT want to get in a seesaw competition with. And she\u2019s bi-polar too! Well that was a defense anyway.<\/p>\n

Big Rosie \u201cmiss-appropriated\u201d $2.4 million in the late 90\u2019s from Ashland through a scheme of giving away abatements, rigging water and sewer bills, as well as just plain stealing.<\/p>\n

According to the prosecutor, our own Phillip McLaughlin, the NH AG at the time, Rosie would get two years in jail.<\/p>\n

No way! She was paroled eight months into her sentence.<\/p>\n

I went to the parole \u201chearing\u201d and waited in line for three hours to get to speak.<\/p>\n

I pointed out that Rosie \u201cmiss-appropriated\u201d money taken from TAXPAYERS by threat of loss of property, not like this was a used car dealer or a lawyer stealing from a client, here the victims had no recourse but to pay the only game in town – the “conopoly”.<\/p>\n

Mentioning that Rosie was only CONVICTED of stealing $112,000.00, NOT the $2.4 million that the forensic auditors found missing, before they gave up, seemed to bother the NH Parole Board just a wee bit. (Guess they thought this would be easy and quiet.)<\/p>\n

When I told them that The NH Municipal Association paid Ashland $660,000.00 in damages from the theft they had enough and began to ask me to please sum it up as I was \u201coutside the scope of the hearing\u201d as they put it.<\/p>\n

I guess they wanted Rosie to get a FAIR hearing!<\/p>\n

Here is how FAIR it was.<\/p>\n

Rosie has to pay back Ashland at $25.00 per week for what her assets did not cover \u2013 about $70,000.00.<\/p>\n

Rosie \u201cmiss-appropriated\u201d at least $2.4 million in local taxpayer money. (The town tax are went up almost $3.00 to cover it.)<\/p>\n

She was out of jail in eight months.<\/p>\n

The three member Parole Board was appointed by then – Governor Jeanne Shaheen.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor was appointed by – Governor Shaheen.<\/p>\n

The law firm that represented the \u201cindigent\u201d Rosie McNamara \u2013 Shaheen and Gordon.<\/p>\n

The \u201cinsurance company\u201d that paid off Ashland \u2013 NHMA.<\/p>\n

The \u201cwitness\u201d who signed an affidavit taken by the AG swearing that Rosie was entitled to some of the money she took \u2013 an NMHA employee.<\/p>\n

Theft of government money in NH is pandemic and historic.<\/p>\n

Maybe letting people go is the reason. Along with WHO lets them go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile Last week the Manchester Paper had a FRONT PAGE article about how softly our judicial system treats people who abused their position as a municipal employee. The $250,000.00 stolen from the Derry Economic Development Corp. by \u201cCherri\u201d Crawford landed her only a few months in a real jail. Ditto the Hampstead lunch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishonorable","category-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}