From The Associated Press, 3/27/06:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Fourth+man+charged+in+phone-jamming+scheme&articleId=783ded6a-c22e-4d28-b8fb-711a864a079e
Fourth man charged in phone-jamming scheme
By HOLLY RAMER
The Associated Press
Concord --
The former co-owner of a telemarketing firm yesterday pleaded not
guilty to participating in a Republican scheme to jam Democrats'
get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002.
Shaun Hansen, 34, of Spokane, Wash., was indicted by a federal grand
jury on March 8, but the charges were not made public until his
arraignment yesterday.
Hansen is charged with conspiring to commit and aiding the commission
of telephone harassment.
Prosecutors say he was paid $2,500 to have employees at Idaho-based
Mylo Enterprises place hundreds of hang-up calls to phone lines
installed to help voters get rides to the polls on Nov. 5, 2002.
Among the contests decided that day was the close U.S. Senate race in
which Republican Rep. John Sununu beat outgoing Democratic Gov. Jeanne
Shaheen.
Three others have been convicted for their roles in the scheme.
Former state Republican Executive Director Chuck McGee pleaded guilty
to devising the idea of jamming the lines and served seven months in
prison.
Allen Raymond, former president of Virginia-based GOP Marketplace LLC,
pleaded guilty to executing the plan and is serving a three-month
sentence.
James Tobin, who had served as New England chairman of President
Bush's reelection campaign, was convicted in December of telephone
harassment charges and faces up to five years in federal prison.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in May.
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A Republican bag of worms.
Harry
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