BRENTWOOD – Bradley Cook, 74, of Hampton has filed a notice of intent to plead guilty and accept a fully negotiated plea agreement with a $1,200 fine and no jail time in connection with his testimony before a grand jury investigating then-Ports and Harbors Director Geno Marconi, who also accepted a plea deal just four days ago.
Cook’s notice was filed Tuesday in Rockingham County Superior Court and seeks an online plea and sentencing hearing via Webex that hasn’t yet been scheduled. The notice doesn’t specify what crime Cook will plead guilty to. Cook declined comment Tuesday, and his attorney Tony Naro couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Cook, the former owner of Atlantic Fishing and Whale Watching, had been charged with one felony and two misdemeanors all alleging lying or false swearing by testifying to the Rockingham County grand jury in September of 2024 that he did not communicate with and/or receive materials from Geno Marconi relating to the pier use permit of Neil Levesque. Levesque is the vice chairman of the Pease Development Authority, which oversees the Division of Ports and Harbors.
Cook was the chairman of the Division of Ports and Harbors Advisory Council at the time.
Geno Marconi, 74, of Stratham was the director of the Division of Ports and Harbors of the Pease Development Authority until he pleaded guilty Oct. 31 and was forced to resign under the terms of the plea agreement.
Marconi pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the Driver Privacy Act ending a four-year investigation into him that started when two fishermen complained about ice and fuel at Rye Harbor, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Dan Jimenez, who along with Assistant Attorney General Joe Fincham prosecuted Cook, Marconi and Marconi’s wife, state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi.
Hantz Marconi, 69, pleaded no contest but was found guilty Oct. 7 in Merrimack County Superior Court to Criminal Solicitation (Misuse of Position), was fined $1,200 and received no jail time.
Hantz Marconi, who has returned to the bench hearing appeals, pleaded no contest to having met with then-Gov. Chris Sununu in June of 2024 securing a government privilege she wasn’t entitled to regarding a criminal investigation into her husband, Geno Marconi.
The charge Geno Marconi pleaded guilty to Friday was knowingly using information from a department record for any use other than the use authorized by the Department of Safety by providing confidential motor vehicle records pertaining to Neil Levesque to Bradley Cook, who was then-chairman of the Division of Ports and Harbors Advisory Council.
Judge David Ruoff accepted Marconi’s guilty plea and sentenced him to 30 days in the House of Corrections with all suspended as long as he is on good behavior for one year, imposed a $2,000 fine plus penalty assessment and required as part of the plea deal that Marconi resign from his position.
“The evidence shows that I did provide copies of one individual’s NH DMV records and related fishing and pier permits to the chairman of the Division of Ports and Harbors Advisory Council,” Marconi said after the hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court Friday.
“Those documents were not shared with the public or posted on the DPH website (as the Pease Development Authority has and continues to do with similar records). Further, this action was done without malice or any nefarious purpose,” Marconi said, adding he will retire after four decades of public service.




