About
Learn More about our progressive online community for the Granite State.

Create an account today (it's free and easy) and get started!
Menu

Make a New Account

Username:

Password:



Forget your username or password?


The Masthead
Managing Editors

Contributing Writers
elwood
Mike Hoefer

ActBlue Hampshire

The Roll, Etc.
NH Prog Blogs & Alumni
Betsy Devine
Blue News Tribune (MA)
Citizen Keene
Democracy for NH
Equality Press
Mike Caulfield
The Political Climate
Granite State Progress
Chaz Proulx
Susan the Bruce

NH Political Links
Capital Beat
Graniteprof
Granite Status
Kevin Landrigan
NH Political Capital
NH Political Info
Political Chowder
Portside with Burt Cohen

Campaigns, Et Alia.
ActBlue Hampshire
NHDP
DCCC
DSCC
DNC

National
Bob Geiger
DailyKos
Digby
Eschaton
FiveThirtyEight
MyDD
The Next Hurrah
Open Left
Senate Guru
Swing State Project
Talk Left
Talking Points Memo

50 State Blog Network
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin

RSS Feed

Blue Hampshire RSS


Justice Department says at least 4 others could be charged in phone jamming

by: Paul Twomey

Tue Feb 10, 2009 at 03:52:39 AM EST


( - promoted by Dean Barker)

The lead prosecutor in the phone jamming case told the  Maine federal judge who is deciding whether to let the government go forward against Jame Tobin with a charge of lying to the FBI about the phone jamming that at least four others could be charged with lying to  investigators and that others knew about the crime before it occurred. The Bangor News reports that:

U.S. Trial Attorney Andrew Levchuk said that at least four other people could be charged with lying to investigators, as Tobin has been.

Levchuk did not name anyone but said that individuals in addition to Tobin, 48, and two others who pleaded guilty and served prison terms had "prior knowledge" of the plan to make repeated hang-up calls to Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks more than six years ago.

The prosecutor, who works in the Public Integrity Division of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division in Washington, also said that he believed Tobin had told a "superior" about the plan.

The list of James Tobins superiors in 2002 would be a very short document composed of very important people at the highest levels of the RNC and the White House Political Office. People worth the 5+ million dollars spent so far for Tobins legal fees.

Paul Twomey :: Justice Department says at least 4 others could be charged in phone jamming
Tags: (All Tags)
Print Friendly View Send As Email
Powered by: SoapBlox