Va. Man Pleaded Guilty to Making Harassing Phone Calls to N.H. Democrats
By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 9, 2005; Page A12
BOSTON, Feb. 8 -- A federal judge in New Hampshire sentenced the former president of an Alexandria political consulting firm on Tuesday to five months in prison, the first jail term handed out in connection with the jamming of state Democratic Party phone lines on Election Day in 2002.
Allen Raymond, who headed the now-defunct company GOP Marketplace, which was hired by New Hampshire Republicans for election-related telemarketing services, pleaded guilty last summer to one count of conspiring to make harassing phone calls.
He apologized before U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico, who imposed the sentence. It included a $15,600 fine.
"Your honor, I did a bad thing," he said, according to the Associated Press. "While what I did was outside my character, I take full responsibility for my actions."
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