About NAAG
Michael Delaney (D)
New Hampshire Attorney General
Appointed: 2009
State House Annex, 33 Capitol St., Concord, NH 03301-6397
(603) 271-3658
http://doj.nh.gov/
Michael Delaney was appointed to serve as Attorney General of New Hampshire by Governor John Lynch in August 2009. Delaney's priorities as chief law enforcement officer and chief legal counsel of the State include improving child protection, strengthening the State's prosecution of white collar crime, and protecting consumers from financial exploitation and fraud.
Delaney joined the Attorney General's Office in 1999 as a prosecutor. In 2003, he was appointed Chief of the Homicide Prosecution Unit, responsible for the supervision of all homicide investigations and prosecutions in the State. He was appointed to serve as New Hampshire's Deputy Attorney General from 2004 to 2006. He resigned his position in 2006 to work as Governor Lynch's legal counsel. As the Governor's legal counsel, he helped shape important new laws that better protect children from sexual predators and help combat child exploitation over the Internet.
As a prosecutor, Delaney focused on white-collar crime, public integrity matters and homicide cases. Delaney prosecuted the Wolfeboro teen computer hacker known as Coolio, who received national attention for his attempts to breach computers at federal military bases, and for hacking the websites ofD.A.R.E.com and a major private Internet security firm. Delaney prosecuted Robert Tulloch and James Parker for the murders of Dartmouth College professors Half and Suzanne Zantop, and received a commendation from the FBI for his work. Delaney also led efforts to obtain convictions for some of
New Hampshire's most notorious unsolved murders, including the conviction of Joseph Whittey, who murdered 81 year-old Concord resident Yvonne Fine in 1981. Delaney was also successful in obtaining a conviction of Lucille Sanchez, who conspired with Baltazar Salas Robles in Manchester to strangle Sanchez's aunt for an inheritance in 1989.
Before joining the Office of the Attorney General, Delaney worked for five years with the law firm of Wiggin & Nourie, PA in Manchester, where he specialized in complex class action litigation and played an active role in the multi-district litigation against American Honda for bribery and racketeering claims. This action resulted in a $330 million class action settlement, then reported as the largest civil RICO recovery in the United States.
Delaney is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in 1991 and he received his law degree in 1994 from Georgetown University Law Center. In 2004, New Hampshire Magazine's "Ideal Attorneys" publication recognized. Delaney as the State's fastest rising star in criminal prosecution. In 2005, Delaney was honored by the Manchester Union Leader as one of the forty leaders in New Hampshire under age 40 making a difference in New Hampshire.
Delaney holds many leadership positions to advance New Hampshire's criminal justice and law enforcement priorities. He serves as the Chair of the Governor's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, the New Hampshire Interbranch Criminal and Juvenile Justice Council, and the Justice Reinvestment Leadership Group on corrections reform. Delaney is a member of the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council. He has served on the New Hampshire Bar Association's Ethics
Committee and the New Hampshire Supreme Court's Committee on Character and Fitness. Delaney is Chair of the Eastern Region of the National Association of Attorneys General and is a member of the Association's Executive Committee. Delaney is a member of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bars. He resides in Manchester with his wife and three children.
