For those who did not know, Selectman Groski is running for County attorney. Given this office's history of ethically challenged opportunists, who do not give two shits about justice, He should fit in splendidly.
However, Mr. Groski penned a LTTE to the Carriage Towne News this week criticizing his opponent Pat Conway. He did so NOT by criticizing her actions, performance of duties, or any other such honorable method of discourse, NO, he chose to criticize her for the actions of her deputy. THEN, he devoted an inordinate amount of space to the derision of Laurie list cops, evidently the husband of Ms. Conway is on this list, but that did not stop him from using this to smear Ms. Conway. What this has to do with her job performance no one knows other than the mudslinger himself.
It falls to this blog to remind Mr. Groski of a few points, YOU EMPLOY A LAURIE LIST COP YOURSELF! Detective Nick Fiset. Nicky baby is apparently so dishonest that the County Prosecutor Jill Cook, did not even attempt to call him as a witness to a case in which he is the chief investigating officer. Have you ever heard of a criminal case in which the investigating officer does not testify as to his methods and findings? What makes this worse is that it is believed that this officer fabricated a case against a resident, and has dragged it out for 20 months without trial. Mr. Groski, this is under YOUR alleged leadership.
You further decry the settlement expenses involved in civil litigation against the County Attorney's office, $80,000, Right Jason? But you are a staunch defender of your fellow Selectmen Phil Consentino, who just, what, two to three years ago cost this town and it's insurers $100,000 pursuant to a sexual harassment complaint? And this was just the latest expense in his storied career of bullying, harassing, and oppression, and the resulting litigation. His career has cost this town and it's insurers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not over a million. No comment about that, right Jason?
You criticize Pat Conway, because the Judge had harsh words for HER DEPUTY. Words like; " “single-minded, zealous advocacy (that) clouded her higher duty to honor the defendant’s constitutional rights.”" But, Jason, Buddy, you defend Phil, about whom the following comments were made; "cease and desist" "bullying, harassing and intimidating his employees" by the NHPELRB. or "It is difficult for the Court to believe Mr. Consentino did not understand the terms of it's May 10, 2005 Order. Mr. Consentino testified that his attorney explained the Order to him" Rockingham Superior Court Judge McHugh, in his Contempt Order. From the same Order; "From the Defendant's demeanor, it is clear that he believes that because he was elected selectman he can do or say anything" "Apparently he concludes this entitles him to consider Atkinson "his town"". Because the Court finds that Philip Consentino has wilfully violated its order the Court grants the Plaintiffs motion for Contempt." THIS is what you defend.
Tell me Jason, you had no problem with the conflict of interest inherent in your wife's hiring as a consultant to TRSD. You have actively participated in town business meetings that violated RSA 91A. When this was pointed out, you defended the boards actions, obfuscating the issue, and refusing to address the simple legal requirements of going into a non public meeting. Hardly honorable.
You even attempted to use your standing as an attorney to give undue weight to yours and the boards wrongheaded theory that they enjoyed some authority over the Conflict of interest committee. Try reading the law, Jason, before you attempt to twist it.
Remembering these perfidities, and balancing them against your sanctimonious LTTE, reminds me of the parable about those who live in glass houses, throwing stones.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 255 of 255Chief Bracket is another loser. He makes one sided comments in the local paper and never mentions that Officer Paige Booth admitted on the stand that she never looked for evidence, even when she was told EXACTLY where to look. He also failed to mention he sent Laurie cop Fiset out to gather witnesses against a stalking victim. Not to mention all the audio played in Kangaroo court to support her claims. Nice job, APD f's up again.
So, Officer Booth admits she never looked for physical evidence of the fireworks.
Officer Lundquist admitted he recovered a canister that had fired off multiple fireworks from the road in front of LaFrances home.
The APD witnessed the stalker screaming out her name late one night and arrested him for violating bail conditions. This, too, was caught on video.
Tapes of the noises were played in Court.
The stalker lied in Court
The neighbor lied in court.
The officer lied in Court.
AND, APD began interviewing witnesses two weeks PRIOR to the first incident she was charged with, (Conlan's testimony)
The STATE dragged this out for 22 months for a "critical witness" who offered no evidence at all.
Tapes of all three calls to police played in Court never once, was the Stalker identified as the perp, nor was disorderly conduct mentioned.
For the charges on the 24th, NO POLICE REPORT WAS EVER CALLED IN OR FILED!
How can you be charged with filing a false police report when you did not file one at all, true or false?
Doesn't pass the smell test.
Kudos to Ms. LA France that they had to use lying Laurie Fiset, an incompetent Booth, a failure of a Chief, a stalker, Andy and Lisa Conlan (who got sued for vandalism ), in order to find her guilty. She sounds honest to me!!!
More Atkinson whackos run amok, this lady was a nut just like most in here.
PLAISTOW — A former Atkinson town official was found guilty Monday of repeatedly lying to police by falsely accusing her neighbors of disorderly conduct in 2014.
Joyce LaFrance, 60, of Granite Ridge Road was convicted on four counts of making false reports to law enforcement during her trial in 10th Circuit Court in Plaistow.
LaFrance served on the Atkinson Conflict of Interest Committee for several years but resigned in March 2014. She was arrested nine months later on six counts of making false reports to law enforcement.
It was not immediately clear Monday when the two additional charges against LaFrance were dropped, but she faced only four counts at trial.
LaFrance called police to complain about her neighbors on Nov. 13, Nov. 20, Nov. 21 and Nov. 26, according to court documents.
Police received all the calls in the early morning, most between 4 and 7 a.m. One call came between 2:30 and 10 a.m.
All of the false reports LaFrance was charged with making were made against a single individual, whom LaFrance's lawyer said she had a restraining order against.
But Atkinson Police Chief Albert Brackett said LaFrance complained constantly about her neighbors.
"Since I've been the chief here ... there have been ongoing, constant complaints coming from her residence about her neighbors," he said. "Early 2014 up until November, when she ended up getting charged, I was receiving constant communication, emails and calls from her."
LaFrance called police Nov. 13, 2014, to report that her neighbor had fired a gun and "yelled out her name." In the other complaints, she accused the same neighbor of setting off fireworks or other loud explosions, or simply making "loud noises."
Despite the constant calls, Brackett said the majority of the complaints were unfounded.
Atkinson police charged a neighbor with disorderly conduct as a result of LaFrance's complaints twice. On a third occasion, police issued a citation for violating the town's noise ordinance.
LaFrance was ordered to have no contact with the neighbor named in the complaints and was fined $2,000 for each charge. The fines will be suspended for a year on the condition LaFrance not be charged with any felonies, misdemeanors or major motor vehicle violations in that time.
LaFrance directed inquiries to her lawyer, Rick Lehmann, who said she maintains her innocence and is likely to appeal the conviction.
"There were a lot of limits put on the evidence that the court was willing to receive. That's not unusual in district court trials, but there's a long, long history between her and the complaining witness here," Lehmann said. "She had gotten a restraining order against him at some point ... during the time this was all happening."
"She has a right to appeal, to take this to a jury of appeals rather than having a judge decide her case and that is a right she is likely to exercise," Lehmann added.
Brackett assigned an officer to investigate LaFrance's claims in November 2014. That officer found "absolutely no evidence" that LaFrance's complaints were warranted, Brackett said.
"I can't explain why she was making those calls. She has had a longstanding problem in her neighborhood" since 2009, Brackett added. "Unfortunately, this case has been dragged out for the last two years and we're really happy to have a resolution."
Of course Bracket can't explain why, his Officer Booth forgot to investigate! I hope she appeals this BS. No evidence except for years worth of recordings and videos Chief liar.
beat at your own game lady. guilty is as guilty does. have a nice time with that government clearance.
I loved when the prosecutor threw Fiset under the misconduct bus when she said she never got the noise recordings from the police. It's in his own report! Dishonest and dumb. Dangerous combination. Next time? Put him on the stand, he has some explaining to do.
Oct.4th @ 7:47 said it all when you consider the true fact of water and "DoDo"flowing down hill until it seeks its level. A great place to start is with the officials and their underlings.
Hey Chief Brackett; Officer Booth after stating that it was perhaps her second shift out of training, Admitted that she never looked for evidence of fireworks. Her "investigation" was to drive around the neighborhood, state she heard nothing(45 mins AFTER the reported time of the noise) then go ask the one neighbor who had just lost a lawsuit and had to pay LaFrance $14,000 for a statement.
BE HONEST for once.
BTW, are you unaware that officer Lundquist testified that he recovered a fireworks canister, from the street that had fired off multiple devices? Are you unaware that your dept. is in possession of dozens upon dozens of gigabytes of recordings of these noises and fireworks? Are you unaware that your own officers witnessed the stalker screaming out her name late at night, and arrested him for violating his bail conditions? ALSO on video.
How about this...... if you can't be honest, just shut up.
Police are workers of the public and should not represent their departments when it comes to political agendas by wearing their uniforms is an ad campaign or during a debate. They can express their freedoms of speech as a civilian.
What a waste of time and money...LowLifes, both of em. You two
sausageheads harrassing each other is Kindergarden Crap... ... please, the both of you,
Grow up enough to pack, take your drama to, say, Canada....
must really hurt your pride to have to blog about yourself on this petty blog. At least you look handsome in your mug shot!!!
To 9:24 - is your hair pulled so tight that you think it's acceptable to employ or tolerate lying cops? Why don't you leave, we don't need you here. You're toxic to our town and honest people.
that is a pretty bad picture
The corrupt County Prosecutor's faux outrage in Court was laughable. She raled at ms. LaFrance stating she should not have called the police at the stalker's antics because she " should have known that he might have gotten in trouble for it".
Jill, do you tell rape victims, not to call the police because they know the rapist might get in trouble?
Outrageous.
Paige, honey, if you did your job, and investigated, or refused to lie for your fellow cops, none of this would have happened. And you talk about others.
Paige Booth should lose her job and be prosecuted for arresting a person without an investigation. Is this the type of person we want in town? And ex-military? What a scumbag.
The judge imposed a condition that requires her not to get any violation level charges! You can't be brought up on criminal charges for a parking ticket. How incompetent or corrupt is this judge?
So what's the worst part?
Being found guilty on all charges?
Your face on FRONT PAGE? With GUILTY next to it?
Loosing government clearance?
Being beat at your own game?
having to move?
Or is it loosing your credibility as soon as anyone googles your name?
Or the mug shot hall of shame?
The worst part is us having to live in this sewer of corruption. Town has gotten worse than better. With all the BS that has gone on in thirty years you would think we would have elected and hired better people.
To 8:58;
You meant to say LOSING, not LOOSING.
Please get a refund on your alleged education
8:58 the worst part is the jury trial coming up and Brackett can explain to them his lies in the newspaper. The perjury can be revealed and Booth can tell them how she didn't bother to investigate. No safety for women in your town.
The town is fine. Always has been .. but every small town has its share of idiots,
this blog is a good place for them to take out their frustations without having direct
Interaction with the non idiots. ---- this is their safe place.... Fireworks, stalking, some love triangle,
Geez who gives a shit besides the idiots that post here.... Here Grosky, this thread was about you
but these losers turn it into their personal Drama....they have no idea how boards work...
ATkinson is a great town with a fine police department , fire department, great volunteers, and loads
of caring individuals ... I'm proud to be from here.
Google Atkinson and this trash heap of a board pops up.... I post so that maybe some curious soul
Interested in Atkinson may see that the corruption they rail about is made up BS based on personal vendettas
This Board does not represent Atkinson, just the fringe of the fringe blowing off their stinky steam...
So plant some Daffodils for 250th, do something positive instead of crapping here....
Do you think having to pay all the lawsuits and sexual discrimination payout make this place "rosey"? Boy you been drinking the conman's kool aid for some time now.
Mr. 9:45am;
Atkinson has had more than it's share of corruption for 37 years, thanks largely to one man. Phil Consentino began his career as chief with the discovery by a selectman, that he was misappropriating funds. He was giving fees generated by the dept. to the Patrolmens assoc. rather than the town. Off. Pat Judge, acted honorably shutting down the assoc. and giving the money to the Town. Phil, true to form, whined about "his name". the competing lawsuits raged for 6 years, before being settled in 1988. Phil claimed in a selectmen's meeting after the settlement, that Peak got nothing, $15,000, did not even cover his legal fees. Phil lied. Go read the case file in Brentwood. The last entry is a letter offering $500,000 to settle, and it was refused. One month later the case was settled under a NDA. During the case, Phil followed Peak through town, filed frivolous tickets that went nowhere, lied to Mass. DOR, and other agencies about his business. In other words, the same tactics employed against the Grants, Acciard, Daniels, Rivera, Lorden, Childs, Artus, Kaye, et.al.
He followed this up with the Firing and smearing of Lt. Daniels. The labor cases against Buco, Rivera, the harassment of Childs, The case against the Grants, Acciard, Harassment of Mr. Kaye, The infamous town that hates Halloween. Need I continue?
This one man has cost the town and it's insurers close to, if not over $1,000,000 in legal fees, and settlements.
You want to know the source of the corruption? There it is. And to those in law enforcement he is a joke, a buffoon. You should have listened to Plaistow Chief savage talk about Phil, or Hampstead Chief Joe Beaudoin.
However you defend this corruption, and abusive behavior. Perhaps you support his serial sexual harassment of the dispatcher young enough to be his daughter, that resulted in his FIRING FOR CAUSE. Remember you are paying for this.
Said dispatcher Lynne Cunningham or lately, Lynne Witham is a FB friend of the stalkers GF and other witnesses, and has bought 3 cars from the stalker. Not to mention that her entire family are his customers, and her personal bills were being paid out of the APD charity for seniors. Those documented police connections can get you off anything.
Law 15
Crush your Enemy Totally:
All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely.
(Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how
dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than
through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only
in body but in spirit.
The ballot box is the answer to all of the towns troubles. The one thing that they can't do is stay in their positions if they aren't elected again to office.
Sunlight is the answer to all of the towns problems. Consentino would never have been elected selectman, if the public knew he was fired because he sexually harassed female employees for years, and it cost the town six figures.
get your facts straight. make friends down at the station and stay golden. sell a few cars, take in a few cars, great business. golden. it don't hurt to have a finger up a blue but. 666 hahahaha. rap music rap music. sick neighbors get what they deserve, the stalkers!!! lots of rap and crackers up their buts. best thing is screwing over cop haters. and cop protection is the best, man o man. With cops as witness you can drag cop hatin bitches by their tawatts. Blue lives matter!
A common trick by police is to take other criminals they know, who are facing jail on other charges, and get those criminals to be false witnesses against you. The cops justify this kind of thing by saying to themselves, "Well, if you didn't commit this crime, you probably committed some other crime we don't know about." If they do arrest you in America, they like to pile on all sorts of criminal charges. The idea is to charge you with 10 crimes, because it makes you sound bad, and maybe convict you on 3 of them or you will accept a plea bargain on 1 or 2 of them. Any kind of guilty plea, and they call it a success, even though you were totally innocent.
Stalking is defined as repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, disruption or any other behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a person to feel fear.
The relentless neurotic nature of a stalker can take the form of harassing their victims with noise or fireworks (the State noise ordinance is not enforced), yelling out their names repeatedly, as well as middle of the night antics to disrupt sleep. If these are ineffective, the individual may escalate to more intrusive behaviors such unexpectedly confronting their victims in their cars or on the highway, following them obsessively. Research tends to focus on how violating it is to bear the brunt of stalkers’ obsessions, but there is little to explain what exactly motivates the stalker, and further, how to therapeutically treat these habitual and very sick offenders.
The National Institute of Justice in Washington conducted a national stalking victimization study in 2009. Victims were asked what they thought motivated their stalkers to pursue them. Of 3,416,460 victims, 36.6% considered stalker motivations as “anger or spite,” 32.9% replied “control,” and 23.4% said “mental illness or emotional instability.”
In reality, most stalkers suffer from delusions of grandeur, and suffer from other forms of severe mental illness including elevated manic depression, major depression, sustained illegal substance abuse, and narcistic personality disorders. Therapeutic interventions for stalkers are directed first at their mental disorders. Stalkers as a group, have an impressive capacity to rationalize, minimize and excuse their behaviors.
Anyone see the Kelly Ayotte mailing that arrived with todays mail? Our top cop front and center in uniform, is that ok?
Electioneering! Turn him in.
Quick! Grosky, do something! Keep those campaign promises. End the corruption.
Grosky isn't going to do anything, Al and Jason are the best of buddies!
Hey Chief Brackett, your doing a fine job, support who you want,
The lowlifes here are just that....
Yes he can support whomever he wishes. He can not do it in uniform. THAT puts the imprimatur of his office on it. That is electioneering
Then have the balls to petition the COI!
Why should he have to have the balls to do some thing when they're are others in their positions who are supposed to do just that. Time for a town office clean out with a big broom is it not?
Who in what positions? The selectmen,hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Where the LIES end and the TRUTH begins...GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES
LaFrance was ordered to have no contact with the neighbor named in the complaints and was fined $2,000 for each charge. The fines will be suspended for a year on the condition LaFrance not be charged with any felonies, misdemeanors or major motor vehicle violations in that time.
Brackett assigned an officer to investigate LaFrance's claims in November 2014. That officer found "absolutely no evidence" that LaFrance's complaints were warranted, Brackett said.
10/13@4:11, You didn't answer the question as written by me. There are more than just town officials and politicians that could at least try to do some thing . We are not using our state reps and our other local and state elected persons to solve our towns problem[s]. jmho
Bracket lied to the newspapers. Officer Paige Booth admitted she never investigated and never questioned the stalker neighbor. Now that it's appealed, the charges don't stand so why don't you stop blogging lies and stalking her on here? How about that?
To the last commentator and the one to whom they responded. You are correct. I was in Court that day. Officer Booth stated that she never investigated the scene for remnants of fireworks., despite the location from which they were fired being reported in tedious detail. She also testified she never looked for shell casings. She was not on scene at the reported time of the noises. And Officer Lundquist testified that he recovered a canister that had been used to fire off numerous fireworks from the street.
Officer Booth further testified that her only form of investigation was to speak with Ms. LaFrance's next door neighbors, on the far side of her home from the incidents, and to drive around the neighborhood.
Hence Brackett's statements were misleading at best, and outright lies or deceptions at worst.
They can't help, they'll get targeted too. The criminals run the town, don't you get it?
A compulsive liar is defined as someone who lies out of habit. Lying is their normal and reflexive way of responding to questions. Compulsive liars bend the truth about everything, large and small. For a compulsive liar, telling the truth is very awkward and uncomfortable while lying feels right.
ATKINSON MUST GET RID OF THESE CORRUPT LIARS. THEY ARE THE POISON THAT RUNS BLOGS LIKE THESE. THE REAL HEROS ARE THE BOYS AND GIRLS IN BLUE. THE LIES MUST STOP HERE AND NOW.
The epitome of liars are those who lie in court as we saw. Now we own them. We hold their futures in our hands. They can be listed with the lying Laurie cops.
GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its one heck of a pause since the last blog on the 16th. Could it be that the police officers are not afraid of the Laurie list ? I haven't heard of any officer being fired because of it have you? To be on the list is one thing but what is done about the sworn under oath verbal court lying on the stand that has shown the officer lied? Nothing here has been done about the employment or suspension of any officer here on the list.
That is no surprise since they hired Fiset knowing what they were getting. He probably can't get a cop job anywhere else so he owes Consentino, doesn't he? Isn't this how the elderly taxi service worked? Quid pro quo.
It sure was. Now is the time to show what you are made of. Lets show them what is expected of them by suspending or firing them if need be. Just remember this at election time by ridding the town of its corrupt officials at all levels and those in federal and state government as well.
She is a victim of police misconduct. We all know it and she was arrested in order to make her shut the hell up about the stalker with a friendship with apd Nicolas Fiset .
Actually, she is innocent. She played evidence of the noise she complained about recorded at the very same time as when Officer liar Paige Booth claimed to hear nothing. Lots of liars to be outed soon.
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