CONCORD, N.H. --Federal prosecutors have asked that a former Republican National Committee official convicted in an Election Day phone jamming scheme be sentenced to up to two years in prison.
James Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, faces up to seven years in prison and a $500,000 fine after his conviction in December on two telephone harassment charges.
His lawyers have asked for a new trial.
Tobin, 45, stepped down as New England chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 when Democrats accused him of playing a role in the jamming on Election Day 2002, when Republican John Sununu won a hotly contested U.S. Senate race against then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen.
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