james tobin indicted
in a curiously-timed follow-up to the guilty plea for jamming phones with robotic dialers in an attempt to influence the outcome of an election, james tobin, northeast political director for the republican senatorial committee has been indicted for conspiracy to commit telephone harassment.
Ex-Bush chairman indicted on charges related to jamming [union leader, december 2, 2004]The 2002 phone jamming consisted of computer-generated calls to get-out-the-vote phones run by state Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters’ union. More than 800 hang-up calls tied up phones for about 90 minutes.