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Searles was one of 11 former state workers arrested after the state launched an unprecedented criminal investigation into the Sununu Youth Services Center 2019, though charges against one of the men were dropped earlier this year after he was found incompetent to stand trial.

The California governor has emerged as Biden's most prominent battleground-state defender.

Steven Kramer, who also faces a proposed $6 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission, has admitted orchestrating a message that was sent to thousands of voters two days before the Jan. 23 primary.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Andrew Schulman outlined five options for addressing the dispute that arose after a jury awarded $38 million to a man who said he was beaten and raped hundreds of times at the Youth Development Center but found the state liable for only one incident of abuse.

Ron Adams didn’t testify during the recent trial in which a jury awarded $38 million to a man who said he was beaten and raped at the Youth Development Center. But his name came up often.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has not indicated his position on the bill.

A jury earlier this month sided with David Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement at the New Hampshire Youth Development Center in the 1990s.

In NH YDC trial, the jury awarded David Meehan $18 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in enhanced damages. But the state AG aims to use a law to reduce that to just $475,000.

A jury on Friday awarded $38 million to David Meehan, who alleged that the state's negligence allowed him to be repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement as a teenager at the Youth Development Center. But the attorney general's office is seeking to reduce the award under a state law that allows claimants against the state to recover a maximum of $475,000 per "incident."

New Hampshire lawmakers have taken up the issue with legislation that would make it harder for some convicted felons to change their names.