News: Senior Republican charged in phone jamming plot
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A former Bush campaign official has been charged with plotting to jam the phone networks of political opponents during the November 2002 election.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 -- A Republican congressman from California defended his reputation this week, as FBI investigators look into charges that he improperly delayed paying taxes on several lucrative land deals.
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A federal judge has sided with Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in his six-year-old lawsuit against Rep. James McDermott, D-Wash., over an illegally recorded phone call.
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A woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring placed five phone calls to David Vitter while he was a House member, including two while roll call votes were under way, according to telephone and congressional records.
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Former Michigan Rep. Mark Deli Siljander has been charged in connection with his work for an Islamic charity accused of funneling money to an Afghan warlord, prosecutors announced today. The Republican also lied about his ties to the group, which allegedly steered $260,000 to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar -- an ally of the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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A California man has been charged with hacking into T-Mobile's computer network and accessing information on 400 customers, including a U.S. Secret Service agent.
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Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said he told Speaker Dennis Hastert after learning a fellow GOP lawmaker sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy.
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Fake phone contest scandal resurfaces with another alleged case of viewer deception.
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In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27.
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MURRAY, Ky. - Misguided text messages led to the arrest of a western Kentucky teacher who is accused of trying to buy pot from a state trooper. Trooper Trevor Pervine was at dinner with his wife and parents, celebrating her birthday when his phone started buzzing.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls:
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Unfair tactics, lying and spying have been charged in a House primary called wild by veteran watchers in an Arizona swing district.
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President Bush's former New England campaign chairman pleaded innocent Monday to charges that he took part in the jamming of the Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002.
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A former congressman was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter
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Bogus call sends SWAT team to home of unsuspecting family A 19-year-old Washington state man is due in court on Monday to face accusations he hacked into emergency 911 systems and faked a call that a sent SWAT team to the home of a sleeping family 750 miles away.â¦