GOP Leader Sentenced for Listening In on Calls
From Times Wire Reports
The former head of the state Republican Party was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $5,000 for eavesdropping on a Democratic Party conference call. Edmund A. Matricardi III apologized for secretly dialing into two calls on redistricting last year, a crime that led to his resignation.
Matricardi, 35, said he did not know he was breaking the law when he joined the call using access codes provided by a disgruntled former Democratic Party operative, but he acknowledged that it was a mistake.
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