CONCORD – Investigators not only found no evidence state Democratic power broker Raymond Buckley possessed child pornography, but also seriously considered charging Manchester Republican Steve Vaillancourt with making a false report for lodging what proved to be a baseless complaint, the state attorney general said yesterday.
The eight-week criminal probe into the allegations raised by Vaillancourt -- a state representative who was Buckley's housemate for 16 years until 1999 -- revealed a "complete lack of evidence" that Buckley ever possessed child pornography, had it mailed to him, searched the Internet for it, or expressed a sexual interest in minors, Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte said.
"Simply put, Mr. Vaillancourt's allegations that Mr. Buckley was involved in the possession of child pornography are unsubstantiated and unfounded," she said.
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Maybe there will be justice?
Buckley's attorney, John Kacavas, thanked Manchester police and the Attorney General's Office for their "thorough, fair and professional investigation" into a "scurrilous allegation that devastated what was Mr. Buckley's life-long dream to become Democratic Party chairman."
"This transcends politics," Kacavas said. "To accuse someone of this kind of a crime is human savagery. ... It devastated him. It devastated his family and friends. And it devastated a life-long goal."
Kacavas said he has advised Buckley of his legal options to bring a defamation lawsuit against Vaillancourt.
"I'm meeting with my attorney, and we'll be looking at that some other day," Buckley said.
Ayotte released a six-page report detailing the findings of two Manchester police investigators working in consultation with a state prosecutor. It revealed police twice interviewed Vaillancourt during which he conceded never seeing Buckley smuggle child pornography into the country, instead saying Buckley "just told me about it."
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Save your sympathy for someone who deserves it. Buckley is a vicious creep who is finally getting a taste of what he has inflicted on others for twenty years.
He attacks his rival's husbands, wives, parents, and kids. He has called a Democratic congresswoman a "crazy woman"; he had his staffer interrupt an opponent's press conference and throw frozen chicken parts at the candidate (yes, really); he made threatening phone calls to the wife of an opponent for a party office; he made disparaging remarks about a Republican activists religious convictions; he has made absurd claims about the Catholic Church trying to elect Republican candidates. He's a foul, foul person and a poor front person for the Democratic Party.
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