Tobin, who remains free pending the outcome of the appeal, was
sentenced in April in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H., to 10
months in federal prison.
He also was fined $10,000 after being convicted in December after an
eight-day jury trial.
The longtime Republican strategist was found guilty of conspiring to
make more than 800 repeated hang-up calls and of aiding and abetting
the making of those calls.
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Tobin was convicted of conspiring with the former executive director
of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Charles "Chuck" McGee, 36, of
Manchester, N.H., and Allen Raymond, 39, of Maryland, a Washington,
D.C., political consultant who found the Idaho firm to make the calls.
Both men pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in which Tobin denied taking
part.
McGee testified at Tobin's trial that he asked the Bangor man whether
he knew someone who had knowledge about disrupting phone lines.
McGee said Tobin gave him Raymond's phone number.
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A team of lawyers at Williams & Connolly, the Washington, D.C., law
firm hired by the Republican National Committee to defend Tobin,
worked on the brief.
Democrats have criticized Republicans for reportedly paying the law
firm $2.8 million for Tobin's defense.
The RNC has said it stopped paying Tobin's legal bills after his
conviction, but the law firm is continuing to represent Tobin in the
appeals process.
McGee served seven months in federal prison last year.
Raymond originally was sentenced to five months in prison.
His sentence was reduced to three months after Tobin's conviction.
He was released in June.
A fourth man, Shaun Hansen, 34, of Spokane, Wash., has been charged
with taking part in the conspiracy.
Hansen, who owned the Idaho firm that made the repeated hang-up calls,
is scheduled to be tried in October in federal court in Concord, N.H.
From The Bangor News, 9/9/06:
http://www.bangornews.com/news/t/city.aspx?articleid=140179&zoneid=176
Tobin appeals conviction in election phone-jamming case
By Judy Harrison
BOSTON -
Defense attorneys filed an appeal Friday in U.S. 1st District Court of
James Tobin's conviction in a scheme to jam New Hampshire Democrats'
get-out-the-vote phone lines four years ago.
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Republican Family Values in action.
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