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Article: Court ends Tobin's legal saga in GOP phone-jamming case Federal prosecutors drop pursuit of charges against Bangor man
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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The U.S. Justice Department's prosecution of former GOP political
organizer James Tobin of Bangor came to an end last week, more than
61/2 years after a phone-jamming incident during the November 2002
election in New Hampshire led to charges against him in two states.
The case formally ended Thursday when a mandate from the 1st U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston dismissing the latest appeal by
federal prosecutors was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland.
Tobin, 48, was indicted in October by a federal grand jury in
Portland on charges of lying to the FBI during an interview on Oct.
14, 2003, about the phone jamming. Those charges were brought just
days before the statute of ...