This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD – Attorney General John Formella announced Thursday that Geno Marconi of Stratham and Bradley Cook of Hampton have been indicted by a Rockingham County grand jury.
Marconi is the director of the Division of Ports and Harbors of the Pease Development Authority, a state agency, and has been on administrative leave since April of 2024. Cook is the chairman of the Division of Ports and Harbors Advisory Council and a friend of Marconi’s who has spoken out publicly in his support.
The indictments were released the day after indictments against Marconi’s wife New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi were released for allegedly trying to influence Gov. Chris Sununu and Steve Duprey, chairman of the Pease Development Authority, relative to the attorney general’s investigation into her husband, Geno Marconi.
That story can be read here: https://indepthnh.org/2024/10/16/justice-hantz-marconi-indicted-for-attempting-to-interfere-with-criminal-investigation-of-husband-geno-marconi/
Geno Marconi was indicted for two class B felonies – Tampering with Witnesses and Informants and Falsifying Physical Evidence. Geno Marconi was also indicted for four class A misdemeanors – two counts of Driver Privacy Act Violations and two counts of Obstructing Government Administration, according to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office.
The two felony charges against Marconi are:
Geno Marconi was indicted for falsifying physical evidence by altering, destroying concealing or removing something to hinder an investigation by deleting a voicemail/and or voicemails from a phone on April 22.
Geno Marconi was also indicted for tampering with witnesses and informants by purposely committing any unlawful act in retaliation for anything done by another in his capacity as a witness or informant by providing confidential motor vehicle records pertaining to N.L. to another individual B.C. April 4 in violation of the Driver Privacy Act.
N.L. is believed to be Neil Levesque, the vice chairman of the Pease Development Authority. And B.C. is believed to be Bradley Cook.
Bradley Cook was indicted for the class B felony of Perjury and two counts of class A misdemeanor False Swearing. The felony charge alleges Cook was indicted for making a false material statement while testifying before a grand jury Sept. 4 that he did not communicate with/and or receive materials from Geno Marconi relating to the pier permit of N.L.
Reached by phone late Thursday afternoon, Cook said it was the first he heard about being indicted.
“What? I don’t have any idea what they are talking about,” Cook said.
He said he still believes that investigations into Geno Marconi and his wife Justice Hantz Marconi were the result of differences of opinion Geno Marconi had with Gov. Chris Sununu over Rye Harbor. Read that story here: https://indepthnh.org/2024/08/07/friend-says-gov-chris-sununu-behind-effort-to-force-geno-marconi-to-resign/
Cook declined further comment until he could read the indictments.
Read indictments against Geno Marconi here: State of NH v. Geno Joseph Marconi | New Hampshire Judicial Branch
Read indictments against Bradley Cook Here: https://www.courts.nh.gov/media/requested-cases/criminal/state-nh-v-bradley-joseph-cook
Class B felonies are punishable by up to 3.5-7 years in state prison and a fine of up to $4,000.00. Class A misdemeanors are punishable by up to 12 months in a house of corrections and a fine of up to $2,000.00.
Cook and Geno Marconi will be arraigned Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. in Rockingham Superior Court.
These cases were investigated by the New Hampshire Department of Justice and the Rockingham County Grand Jury and are being prosecuted by Senior Assistant Attorney General Dan A. Jiménez and Assistant Attorney General Joe M. Fincham II of the Public Integrity Unit.
