Gracie Gato's Speakeasy Podcast

NEW EPISODE: Robbie Mahrou, Independent for NH-02A CANDID CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT and what needs to change.We talk about the election, what it really means to run as an independent, and what Robbie is blasting in the car on the way to and from rallies (yes, we asked).No party script. No spin. Just a real conversation with a candidate who’s willing to say it out loud.

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NEW EPISODE: Robbie Mahrou, Independent for NH-02 A CANDID CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT and what needs to change.We talk about the election, what it really means to run as an independent, and what Robbie is blasting in the car on the way to and from rallies (yes, we asked).No party script. No spin. Just a real conversation with a candidate who’s willing to say it out loud.

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$430,000. One out-of-state donor. A bill the House already voted down, 284 to 51, that came back anyway.

Marsy’s Law, Revisited follows the filings, the consulting payments, and the emails with Gordon MacDonald and Jane Young on the other end.

Funder. Template. Friendly insider who gets paid to carry it.

Dealt with the NHCADSV or Amanda Grady Sexton and were told help came with conditions? I want your story. 18+, documents help, nothing airs without your permission, and anyone named gets a chance to respond.

Same blueprint. It just learned to wear a Burberry scarf.

Receipts over vibes.

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WHERE THE F IS MIKE GILL? Mike Gill is the O.G. whistleblower in the State of New Hampshire. It costed him everything. Let's talk, pal. It's time to get out of retirement. We got work to do. You were right about everything.

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On September 15th, New Hampshire’s Chief Justice resigned, effective immediately. Gordon MacDonald admitted violating three provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct, after an unexplained medical leave that began in late July.

And through it all, one name kept showing up beside his: his lawyer, Jane Young.

The same Jane Young who served as his Deputy AG, later became U.S. Attorney, and is now Vice President of the NH Bar Association and a member of the Attorney Disciplinary Office’s Screening Committee. Both are bodies under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court her client used to lead.

In this episode:⚖️ What MacDonald actually admitted (the part nobody disputes)📋 Jane Young’s résumé, laid out fairly👀 Why our research team says the overlapping roles are a conflict-of-interest problem📅 The July 30th-31st timeline, and why the timing is a fact even if its meaning is a question🗂️ Older threads our research team raises, clearly labeled as theirs, not ours🗑️ A bonus about shredded trash and a 1994 law review article. You’ll see.

We’ve invited the NHBA leadership, Jane Young, and anyone speaking for Gordon MacDonald to come on the show. The mic is open. Right of reply isn’t a courtesy here, it’s the rule.

Got documents, dockets, or a story you’ve been told to keep quiet? Come find us.

Receipts over vibes. 🧾

NOTE: We had an unfortunate file crash while producing this show. Please excuse the audio. We will do better next time. Promise!

Correction: Jane Young was not acting attorney AG until 2021. The video said 2018.

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A formal ethics complaint just landed on the desk of New Hampshire’s Attorney General — and it names names. This week: an anonymous source’s sworn complaint alleging conflicts of interest, missing paper trails, and a “club” of officials who allegedly protect each other across the AG’s office, the Supreme Court, and the Attorney Discipline Office.

We walk through the allegations one at a time — the Hantz-Marconi plea deal, the Youth Development Center’s staggering payout, a Right-to-Know request that came back empty, and the AG’s office admitting, in writing, that it has no conflict-of-interest protocols at all.

Nothing here is proven. Everything is sourced. That’s the difference between us and everybody else.

Receipts over vibes. Always.

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A formal ethics complaint just landed on the desk of New Hampshire’s Attorney General — and it names names. This week: an anonymous source’s sworn complaint alleging conflicts of interest, missing paper trails, and a “club” of officials who allegedly protect each other across the AG’s office, the Supreme Court, and the Attorney Discipline Office.

We walk through the allegations one at a time — the Hantz-Marconi plea deal, the Youth Development Center’s staggering payout, a Right-to-Know request that came back empty, and the AG’s office admitting, in writing, that it has no conflict-of-interest protocols at all.

Nothing here is proven. Everything is sourced. That’s the difference between us and everybody else.

Receipts over vibes. Always.

( REPUBLISHING LATER TODAY )

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When New Hampshire’s Chief Justice came under investigation, the Supreme Court hired a lawyer to help. That same lawyer also happens to be legal counsel to the state Senate — the body that would handle removing a justice, if it ever came to that.

We trace the retainer from the Attorney General’s inquiry into the Dianne Martin payout, through the fight to keep the Judicial Conduct Committee’s investigation quiet, to the joint statement the JCC later called misleading. Four justices shared one lawyer — until only one of them stipulated and resigned.

We also cover a formal grievance filed this week asking the state’s Attorney Disciplinary Office one question: who is the client?

This is not a story about certainty. It’s a story about a small state where the same names keep showing up on both sides of the room.

Receipts over vibes. Every time.

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Rep. Joseph Barton (R) joins Gracie Gato for a candid conversation on public corruption, institutional accountability, and where anti-corruption reform actually has bipartisan footing in New Hampshire. Recorded on the record, no green room spin — because accountability doesn't check party registration at the door.

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It started as whispers inside New Hampshire’s highest court back in 2021: that Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and attorney Dianne Martin were more than colleagues. MacDonald denies it. Martin denies it. But by MacDonald’s own written account, he spent years fighting a rumor he says traces back to a conversation Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi had with her husband at a Governor and Council meeting.

Whether or not it’s true, that rumor may be the real reason two justices have spent years circling each other — and this week, it finally surfaced. MacDonald resigned as Chief Justice, admitting he mishandled Martin’s $50,000 severance-and-rehire deal. Hantz Marconi, already convicted of a separate misdemeanor, now faces new ethics charges — with MacDonald positioned as a key witness against her this December.

Add to that: a 2024 RICO complaint, a Complaint Screening Committee seat that opened at exactly the right moment for exactly the right person, and a courthouse door that keeps opening for the same two names. Nobody’s disbarred. Nobody’s indicted. The system built to catch this never caught itself.

Receipts, not vibes. Let’s go.

Correction: In this episode, Gordon MacDonald is referred to as "then-Attorney General" at the time the RICO complaint was filed. For clarity: by the time the complaint was filed in fall 2024, MacDonald was already Chief Justice — the RICO complaint concerned conduct from his earlier tenure as Attorney General, when Jane Young served as Associate Attorney General. He is more accurately described as former Attorney General Gordon MacDonald at the time of filing.

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