A federal judge in Concord, NH sentenced Allen Raymond, the former president of a Virginia telemarketing service involved in the phone jamming Democratic Party telephone lines during the 2002 election, to five months in jail, fined him $15,600 and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service.
According to news reports, the judge believed this was an appropriate penalty for trying to suppress the Democratic voter turnout in the hotly contested senatorial race between then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and then-Rep. John Sununu, which Sununu won.
A second Republican operative, Chuck McGee, former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, has pleaded guilty in the phone-jamming incident and may be sentenced next month.
There could be a jail term for a third person implicated in the incident.
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