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The Boston GlobeBy Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff | June 23, 2007
The director of operations on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign took an indefinite paid leave of absence yesterday after becoming the focus of an investigation into allegations that he posed as a state trooper in a phone call complaining to a company about one of its drivers.
The Globe reported yesterday that Jay Garrity, 29, of Boston is the primary subject of a State Police investigation into a May 13 call to a Wilmington drain and sewer cleaning business, in which a caller complains about the erratic driver of a company van. During the phone call, a recording of which was made by the company's answering service and obtained by the Globe, the man identifies himself as "Trooper Garrity of the Massachusetts State Police" and threatens to cite a driver he says was speeding and cutting off cars in the Ted Williams Tunnel.
Law enforcement sources said Garrity became the focus of the investigation after the cellphone used to make the call was traced to him. The number has since been disconnected. The State Police have said there is no Trooper Garrity assigned to the barracks identified in the phone call.
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The problems for Garrity began this week when the New Hampshire attorney general's office opened an investigation into a complaint that a Romney campaign aide, identified as Garrity, pulled over a New York Times reporter who was driving behind a campaign vehicle and then professed to have run the reporter's license plate. The probe was spurred by a citizen complaint, according to Jane E. Young, chief of the criminal justice bureau.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/06/23/romney_aide_takes_paid_leave_amid_probe/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News
Romney Aide is Focus of Probe. Der Mittenfuhrer prepares to do the probing.See prior thread:
Romney aide is the focus of probe Allegedly acted as State Police trooper
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