Has the New Hampshire phone-jamming case finally come to a quiet end?
Federal prosecutors have dropped their case against former regional NRSC official James Tobin in connection with a GOP plot to jam the phone lines of the New Hampshire Democratic party on Election Day 2002, reports the Associated Press.Tobin had been acquitted of involvement in the plot — for which two GOP consultants have served jail time — but was being tried on new charges of lying to investigators. A court dismissed those charges, and last week an appeals court rejected prosecutors’ appeal.
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