The founder of New Hampshire's largest network of addiction treatment centers is accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to vandalize the homes of New Hampshire Public Radio reporters after the publication of an investigation into his alleged sexual abuse and harassment.

Eric Spofford, who lives in both New Hampshire and Miami, was arrested Friday and will be arraigned in Boston federal court on Monday.

In spring 2022, NHPR journalist Lauren Chooljian published a story detailing allegations of sexual assault and harassment by Spofford. Over the next few months Chooljian's home in Melrose, Massachusetts, her former home in New Hampshire, and the homes of her parents and editor, Dan Barrick, were all vandalized.

Prosecutors say Spofford paid his close friend, Eric Labarge, $20,000 in two

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