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On same day, ex-state senator and casino owner arrested for pandemic relief fraud
| by Alex Nuti – de Biasi, Journal Opinion New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted by the Merrimack County Grand Jury for two felonies and five misdemeanors relating to her attempts to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband, Geno Marconi. Hantz Marconi, who was appointed by Gov. Chris Sununu to the Supreme Court in 2017, has been on administrative leave since July. Geno Marconi was the longtime Port Authority director in Portsmouth. He was suspended from his job this spring. The indictments allege Hantz Marconi told Sununu in June that the investigation into her husband was the result of personal, petty or political biases and she urged him to “improperly influence” state investigators, according to the Portsmouth Herald. She is charged with two class B felonies – one count of attempt to commit improper influence and one count of criminal solicitation of improper influence. Hantz Marconi is also charged with five class A misdemeanors – two counts of criminal solicitation of misuse of position, one count of criminal solicitation of official oppression, one count of official oppression, and one count of obstructing government administration. Hantz Marconi’s attorneys issued a statement insisting the judge is innocent and that she will fight the charges in court, per the Herald. The criminal probe of her husband remains open. It was a banner day in New Hampshire yesterday for public figures facing criminal charges … |
| Ex-state Senator arrested |
| … as the New Hampshire Department of Justice also announced that former state Senator Andy Sanborn was arrested for pandemic relief fund fraud in seeking assistance for his business, the Concord Casino. Authorities allege that Sanborn received additional grant monies from New Hampshire’s Main Street Relief Fund 1.0 by misrepresenting the gross receipts of the business by approximately $1 million. As a result, the business received $188,474.33 more than they should have, per the news release at the link above. “This money, intended for small businesses rather than casinos, was used by Sanborn to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of two Porsche race cars for himself and a Ferrari for his wife, State Representative Laurie Sanborn, an earlier investigation by the Attorney General’s Office and state Lottery Commission found,” reports the Concord Monitor. Per the Monitor, Sanborn’s attorneys criticized the arrest and said it was an effort to derail the sale of the Concord Casino. Is there a way we can tie both of these stories together? Not really, but … |
| Closing the loop |
| … we found an old story from our archives about pandemic relief and the New Hampshire Supreme Court. In 2021, the New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery to deny the application of a Piermont camp’s parent company seeking pandemic relief funds. Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi wrote the nine-page decision. The story was in our Sept. 29, 2021 edition. You can find it in today’s newsletter below the public notices. |
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Vermont should be investigating their people in Government as well. Where’s there money and power, corruption is the result. VT isn’t immune. But individuals in the Super Majority won’t pursue.
SCAMDEMIC RELIEF FUND FRAUD Now we all know that no one in Vermont would be involved in this type of crime.