Mary Clements
72 North Street # 9
Hyannis, MA 02616
December 4, 2003
Mr. Robert Lynch
77 Winter Street
Hyannis, MA 02616
Dear Mr. Lynch,
I am so sorry if I compromised your position by quoting a casual conversation that took place over a year ago. I realize that any discussion of safety was directed to keep vulnerable clients safe and not an official declaration of statistics at NOAH. I recall being very angry toward the number of clients that harassed me at NOAH and I was complaining about the number of criminal offenders with whom I came in contact and that I was often unaware of their motives and was often vulnerable. I remember often feeling like prey at NOAH. You also told in me the same conversation that you often noticed that there was a different personality profile of narcotics offenders as opposed to alcoholics. You stated that the two illnesses couldn’t be compared. I was in agreement that there does seem to be different characteristics of alcoholics that can make them also prey to the act of offenders. It also seemed that weaker or physically disabled men and women were left at risk. There were times that this abusiveness was seen in the personalities of some staff.
I was particularly concerned because of Paulette Heath’s insistence that I was a selfish person and insensitive to the needs of the homeless. I have been a nurse and caregiver for a very long time and I was not accustomed to being called intolerant. This incident occurred after I went downstairs to complain that I couldn’t sleep because a man was swearing violently outside the shelter for an extended period of time. He was screaming obscenities outside the window where I slept. I had been awake for over an hour and asked if I could sleep elsewhere. I was told the man must have “Tourette’s Syndrome” and that it was inappropriate to have the man removed by rescue or police. I was told that if I didn’t go back to bed and stop complaining that I would be banned. You will see in the letters I have forwarded that your former staff supervisor Todd Garman was present during her diatribe.
Shortly after I began loaning clothes, toiletries and money to other clients out of guilt. Suzanne Norman, the Shelter Director began directing clients such as Keith, Jay and Bobby Reed to ask me for rides to the Methadone Clinic in Yarmouth over the Thanksgiving holiday. Please refer to the letter I wrote some time ago about what my holiday was like after I went out of the way to escort addicts to the clinic without charge.
After this experience with staff, I began to compensate for deficiencies in the delivery of care and left myself at risk. I am currently calculating financial damages resulting from events that transpired at NOAH. I am aware that I can be terribly opinionated and incredibly outspoken. There are so many people who tried to help me at NOAH/DUFFY including your wife, Gisele, Kelly, your friend Arlene, Bill, Ann Marie and so many others. It’s hard to believe that the so many hurtful people can outweigh the sincere efforts of the majority. This can only be explained by the ruthless, negligent and at times depraved management at HAC/DUFFY.
Nevertheless, I am truly sorry for any embarrassment that this may have caused you, your family and your friends. I wish you both and all of you much happiness and hope for the future. I will need to ensure that things will improve at NOAH for clients, committed staff and the community. At this time I have decided to sever all ties with NOAH. To those of whom it is deserved I owe you my life and offer you my heartfelt thanks.
Yours truly,
Mary Clements
Mary Clements
241D Stevens Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
March 24, 2004
Chief John Finnegan
PO Box B
1200 Phinney’s Lane
Hyannis, MA 02601
Dear Chief Finnegan,
Yesterday afternoon I left notice with your secretary that I was forwarding documents to offended parties in regard to The NOAH Shelter. As you are aware, Mr. Rick Presbrey of Housing Assistance Corporation has stated publicly that I am irresponsible for suggesting that there is a concentration of sex offenders and the NOAH Shelter and that you are willing to state emphatically that this is not true.
Please review the materials provided. A uniformed police officer has stated that Paul Nolin has been traced to the shelter. A number of habitual clients remember Paul Nolin and others have identified him from a series of pictures that I presented. I have included a request made to my bank for a transaction photo of the check paid to Mr. Leon Quick by The Duffy Clinic for services.
It appears that public safety is becoming a priority for parents and children on downtown Main Street.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
cc. Philip Tracy
Nancy Paccia
Gary Brown
Michael O’Keefe, Esq.
Paul Niedwicki, Esq.
Mary Clements
241D Stevens Street
Hyannis, MA.
March 24, 2004
Mr. Gary Brown, President
Barnstable Town Council
Barnstable Town Hall
341 Main Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
Dear Mr. Brown,
Correspondence regarding research on Housing Assistance Corporation has been forwarded to Ms. Nancy Paccia and Julie Donahue. Although much of the information I provided for you was dismissed, attorneys representing the families of “rehabilitated clients” have expressed an interest in reviewing the documents I have provided. Philip Tracy is representing the interests of Julie Donahue, the mother of Jonathan Wessner. As you are aware, Paul Nolin was traced to the Salvation Army/NOAH grounds. He was recently arrested for the well-publicized murder of her son.
Mr. Leon Quick, a recidivist pedophile was a client employee of The Duffy Clinic and set up to work at The Days Inn by the employment specialist after he left NOAH. I have enclosed a photograph on the sign in front of The Days Inn that states, “Kids stay for free”. Leon Quick in “Ways News” accosted Ms. Paccia’s daughter. Mr. Quick frightened the child by stroking her hair and face, complimenting her on her complexion and putting his face next to hers in a peculiar fashion. He has been seen leering at women and children on Main Street and High School Road.
Mr. Lou Gonzaga recently informed me that members of the town council consider the quality of my document compromised by the quality of my emotional “illness”. I appreciate Ms. Canedy’s assertion that I am “distressed”. This is certainly true. I am forwarding my amended document and research to Mr. Atsalis. I understand he prepared an investigation into the NOAH Shelter with his assistant Michael Karath in 2001. Mr. Roger Sherman, the catalyst behind the initiative was also declared insane by The Duffy Clinic. It appears Mr. Sherman’s intuition about problems at NOAH and its political ties may have been well founded. My research substantiates his claims. I am aware that Alan Burt has referred to me as “schizophrenic” to The Town Council. This was also confided to me per Mr. Gonzaga. I have been diagnosed with everything from “PMS” to “SAD” by a renowned team of psychiatrists at New England Medical Center. Schizophrenia is indeed the only major mental illness that has been ruled out.
Because of the stigma associated with Manic-Depression, I recorded most of my experiences at NOAH with photographs, audio recordings, filmed recordings of public meetings, and careful documentation. I saved as many official documents from NOAH and associated agencies as possible. One of these documents is the check drawn on the Duffy Clinic that reimbursed Mr. Quick for his services at Duffy. As you are aware, he has used his remuneration to imbibe in alcohol abuse and then leer at, and accost children on Main Street. This includes stalking children at The Sturgis Charter School with a set of binoculars from his apartment window.
I am once again unsure of the quality of rehabilitation at Housing Assistance Corporation’s NOAH Shelter and associated Duffy Clinic.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
cc. Chief Finnegan
Sergeant Sean Sweeney
Nancy Paccia
Philip Tracy, Esq.
Michael O’Keefe, Esq.
Paul Niedzwicki
Mary Clements
75 Pearl Street #2
Hyannis, MA 02601
March 22, 2007
Christopher H. Worthington, Esq.
15 Castle Road
East Weymouth, MA 02189
Dear Mr. Worthington,
Please note a photograph provided of Michael O’Keefe present at the Barnstable Airport Commission Meeting held in 2003 to expand services to homeless clients of downtown Hyannis. Mr. O’Keefe was aware that there were a number of convicted felons and narcotics addicts known to The NOAH Shelter. The perpetrator convicted in the homicide of your daughter was known to the shelter and adjacent properties. I have forwarded previously an article describing the effort. The organization denied that serious convicted felons were associated with the shelter. Michael O’Keefe is on record suggesting that public officials pay “a little deference” to the decision made by advocates representing the “disparate elements of the community”. Human service workers, clinicians and executives at Housing Assistance Corporation were planning and raising funds to develop an 11.5 million dollar farm project. The vast majority of the criminal element would be screened out by an admissions committee from the project in the Town of Sandwich. The organization was attempting to procure funds and services for free from the Town of Barnstable for unrecovered clients that failed at rehabilitation in the present system. This included serious violent felons and sex offenders.
Livia Davis, the woman spearheading the public relations effort was recently removed from her position as Executive Director of the local shelter. She had planned to build herself a $589,000 home on site and would take over as Executive Director of The Dana’s Field’s Project slated for construction in the neighboring Town of Sandwich. The project was planned and funded at taxpayer expense. You have been previously forwarded the architect’s schematic plan for the project including her extravagant home. Mrs. Davis is now suing her employer for wrongful termination. I have enclosed the articles in the Boston Globe for your review. Livia Davis can clearly be identified from the photograph provided as sitting directly behind Mr. O’Keefe. I have enclosed once again the campaign records indicating Mr. Michael Princi of Wynn and Wynn, PC. made substantial campaign contributions to District Attorney Michael O’Keefe’s campaign. Rick Presbrey, the former employer of Mrs. Davis and CEO of Housing Assistance Corporation is present and seated toward the back of the room. The organization was making these substantial campaign contributions to Mr. Michael O’Keefe during the zoning meetings being held in The Town of Sandwich.
Ms. Judy Best-Lavigniac, RN, FNP,CNS is seated directly to the left of Mr. O’Keefe. The initials following Ms. Best’s last name indicate that that she is a nurse-clinician licensed to practice in the extended care role. As I have indicated previously, Ms. Best-Lavigniac obstructed justice in the homicide of Jonathan Wessner. Mr. Shawn Schirmer testified against Paul Nolin to events prior and subsequent to the murder of his friend, Jonathan. Ms. Best-Lavigniac instructed Mr. Schirmer to conceal evidence in the matter and suggested she would protect him from criticism and scrutiny by keeping the matter confidential. She also suggested that he register at The Pilot House for care and treatment with his narcotics addiction.
Mrs. Best-Lavigniac, RN was fired from her position at the Duffy Clinic immediately after the conviction of Paul Nolin in the Wessner homicide. Judy Best was given seed money for the clinic by Housing Assistance Corporation and founded the Duffy Clinic with resources from her family. She also served on the Barnstable Human Needs Committee with Mr. O’Keefe. Ms. Best-Lavigniac was attempting to secure funding and a facility from the Barnstable Airport Commission and claimed to have connections at The Barnstable Court House. The effort to expand negligent services was underway involving Mr. Michael O’Keefe as the investigation into the Wessner homicide remained open. Ms. Best denied that there were any convicted felons and serious sex offenders associated with the shelter and adjacent properties. She invited Mr. Shirmer to live at The Pilot House and was recruiting clients at Cape Cod Hospital as the expansion effort was underway. The perpetrator convicted in the homicide of your daughter was also using narcotics in the properties adjacent to the shelter at the time of the proposed expansion effort.
There are a number of figures present at the meeting that have been fired from their positions including Outreach Worker Martha McKeon and Cheryl Bartlett of Community Action Committee. Both women served with Mr. O’Keefe on the Barnstable Human Service Committee. Town Council President Royden Richardson is advocating from the podium for expansion of negligent services. President Richardson resigned his position on the Barnstable Town Council citing “term limits” as the reason. Royden Richardson was a former Probation Officer at Barnstable District Court terminated from his position after charges and conviction of molestation of a teenage probationer emerged. Officials at the courthouse instructed that the record be sealed to protect the legacy of Sheriff Jack DeMello.
Interestingly enough, President Richardson’s daughter Rebecca Richardson is a partner at Wynn and Wynn, PC. As I have explained in the past, Michael Princi, Esq. represented Housing Assistance Corporation in front of the Zoning Board of Appeals in regard to the Dana’s Field’s Project. Michael Princi bragged that he made a substantial contribution to a public official in Barnstable and that the project would pass whether I protested or not. You will note the increase in the size of the donation made to Mr. Michael O’Keefe at the approximate time of the arguments being made for both the Dana’s Field’s Project and The Mildred’s Chowder House Expansion Initiative. President Royden Richardson is also responsible for arranging for a lucrative new contract for Chief John Finnegan of The Barnstable Police Department at the time of the negotiation for a new and expanded shelter. Chief John Finnegan was expected to retire from his “interim” position. He decided to stay on as Chief of Police of The Town of Barnstable and accepted a $120,000 windfall salary increase bringing his salary to well over $200,000 dollars annually. Rick Presbrey of Housing Assistance Corporation referred to me as irresponsible publicly at the Airport Commission Meetings for suggesting that violent convicted felons and chronic narcotics addicts are associated with the shelter and adjacent properties. He stated that The Chief of Police would confirm that there were no serious offenders associated with the shelter complex and I have a copy of his comments on videotape.
I have enclosed a photograph of Mr. Paul Niedzwiecki, Esq., the former Chief Financial Officer of The Barnstable District Attorney’s Office at a Fund Raiser for Community Action Committee at The Naked Oyster Restaurant and Bar. Cheryl Bartlett featured in the photograph was Chairman of The Barnstable Human Needs Task Force and was also attempting to obtain properties and funding for expansion of services. Mr. Niedzwiecki also served on the Barnstable Human Service Needs Committee during the expansion effort. Shortly after the mass firings began, Mr. Niedzwiecki replaced Joellen Daly as the Assistant Manager of the Town of Barnstable. He was named to replace Mrs. Daly after her sudden departure for a position as Assistant Regional Manager in North Carolina. She left her position a month after Mr. O’Keefe made the aforementioned public comments about the feasibility of the new shelter complex.
Lastly, I have enclosed a photograph of Heather Lowe, Director of Baybridge Clubhouse for the Mentally Ill dancing with a client at an event sponsored by her organization. Ms. Lowe also served on the Barnstable Human Service Committee with Mr. O’Keefe and has also been terminated without notice from her position. Ms. Lowe was director of this organization for years and the clients were told of her departure by Executives of The May Institute. She left no forwarding address and the office at The Baybridge Clubhouse will reveal no information about her termination.
I have retained the counsel of Mr. J. Drew Segadelli, Esq. in the matter of Criminal Harassment brought against me by The Barnstable Police Department. You may be aware that Mr. Segadelli represents Miss Rachel Huffman, Juror #4 in the homicide case of your daughter. I was instructed to vacate my apartment and leave Barnstable as soon as possible by Judge Donald Carpenter. The case was continued without a finding for one year. I have been threatened with jail time and Judge Carpenter stated that he could not guarantee my safety here in Barnstable. Before the agreement was made, Judge Carpenter questioned me about correspondence I may have had with you. I was told that any further correspondence with you could also lead to my subsequent incarceration.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
