I’ve been at work on a timeline of the NH phone-jamming scandal, trying to “follow the money” that flowed to and from friends of DeLay and Abramoff, as well as the ongoing payments from the RNC to defense lawyers for convicted felon James Tobin.
Here are a few highlights, but I’ll be backpaging the ongoing timeline work:
- 10/28/2002
- NH Republican State Committee gets $10,000 from Abramoff clients.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00136457/95264/sa/ALL - 11/1/2002
- NH Republican State Committee gets $5,000 from Tom DeLays’s ARMPAC.
- 11/4/2002
- McGee signs a $15,600 NH Republican State Committee check to pay for phone-jamming.
- 11/5/2002
- Election day phone-jamming plan unravels, and James Tobin makes two dozen phone calls to the White House office of public affairs between 11/4 and 2:17 a.m. on 11/7…
- 6/30/2004
- Prosecutor Todd Hinnen discloses the involvement in phone-jamming of Allen Raymond’s “former colleague who was then an official in a national political organization.”
- 6/30/2004
- James Tobin donation to Tom Delay (TX) $2,000 (More on Tobin’s donations to friends of DeLay and Abramoff.) …
- 10/14/2004
- Democrats file motion that for the first time names James Tobin as the unidentified co-conspirator and alleges that the Justice Department is conspiring with NH State Republicans to keep his name from being disclosed. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/phone.jamming.motion.10.14.pdf
- 10/15/2004
- James Tobin resigns as Bush-Cheney New England campaign chair. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003694.php
- 12/9/2004
- Eight days after James Tobin’s indictment, the RNC starts paying lawyers to defend him. http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/08/whos_dopey_geor.php?comments=1
- 8/13/2005
- Eight months later, Union Leader breaks story that RNC is paying Tobin’s legal bills.
- 12/15/2005
- NH jury finds James Tobin guilty of conspiracy in the phone-jamming; his lawyers get more money from the RNC and start appealing within a week.
- 04/08/2006
- Karl Rove thanks GOP lawyers for “clean elections.”