Charges Dropped on Republican Phone Jammer

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Feds end prosecution of GOP organizer

BANGOR, Maine—The federal government has ended its prosecution of a former Republican political organizer accused of making false statements to FBI agents investigating a plot to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.

The case against James Tobin of Bangor came to a quiet conclusion with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston mandate dismissing an appeal by prosecutors.

Tobin was cleared in federal court in New Hampshire of taking part in the plot to arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines.

Then the government brought charges in Maine of lying to investigators, and a judge dismissed those. The appeals court ruling, first reported by the Bangor Daily News, was issued last week.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/05/27/feds_end_prosecution_of_gop_organizer/