December 17, 2009
\nby Ed Naile<\/p>\n
The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers has waited a long time for this. Check out some recent Google headlines:<\/p>\n
Local Government Center turns over documents to NH<\/strong><\/p>\n WCAX – \u200e16 hours ago\u200e<\/p>\n AP – December 16, 2009 5:05 PM ET CONCORD, NH (AP) – The Local Government Center has turned over documents that New Hampshire requested as part of an …<\/p>\n LGC fails to block subpoena<\/strong><\/p>\n Concord Monitor – Shira Schoenberg – \u200eDec 15, 2009\u200e<\/p>\n State securities regulators yesterday demanded that the Local Government Center open its books to them – a day after a judge ordered …<\/p>\n Judge: Insurer must open books to regulators<\/strong><\/p>\n The Union Leader – Tom Fahey – \u200eDec 14, 2009\u200e<\/p>\n CONCORD \u2013 A Superior Court judge has rejected a move by the Local Government Center to block state regulators from examining the books of its … Local Government Center Cracks its Books<\/p>\n NHPR – Dan Gorenstein – \u200eDec 10, 2009\u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n But now, for the first time, the local government center has made many documents available to New Hampshire Public Radio and the public. … NH<\/p>\n Ever since the 1996-2001 Town of Ashland financial meltdown CNHT was tracking we have had an issue with how the NH Municipal Association, aka, Local Government Center, operates.<\/p>\n Back then, one Ashland Selectman, who coincidentally, worked for NHMA, testified under oath to the NH AG that the Town Clerk who misappropriated $2.1 million was a great employee who had the approval of the Selectmen to give the then police chief a $20,000.00 cash advance on his salary. This affidavit was witnessed by another NHMA employee, which leads us to believe it was taken at NHMA HQ in Concord??<\/p>\n Since NHMA was the insurer of Ashland let\u2019s look at some other interesting details of just that one case.<\/p>\n 1. The Town Clerk, according to a forensic audit, misappropriated at least $2.1 million but plead guilty to stealing only $112,000.00.<\/p>\n 2. NHMA paid the Town $660,000.00 in damages.<\/p>\n 3. NHMA\u2019s employee testified on the crook\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n 4. The Town Clerk had to pay the town back $25.00 per week for $75,000.00 of the $112,000.00.<\/p>\n 5. She agreed to pay $25 per week because she was underemployed.<\/p>\n 6. Her attorney at the parole hearing I attended in 2002 was Paul Hodes. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n 7. Paul Hodes worked for Governor Jeanne Shaheen\u2019s husband\u2019s firm.<\/p>\n 8. Governor Shaheen appointed all three Parole Board members who let the clerk off after two years.<\/p>\n 9. Shaheen\u2019s appointed AG prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n I wonder how the clerk paid Paul Hodes, $12 per week? I thought indigent criminals had free lawyers? Why such a prominent and politically connected one?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s at least pop open the Local Government Center\u2019s books regarding how much of a take they skim off the insurance they sell NH municipalities.<\/p>\n After that, maybe I\u2019ll ask for that big fat Ashland file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 17, 2009 by Ed Naile The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers has waited a long time for this. Check out some recent Google headlines: Local Government Center turns over documents to NH WCAX – \u200e16 hours ago\u200e AP – December 16, 2009 5:05 PM ET CONCORD, NH (AP) – The Local Government Center has […]<\/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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}