Romney aide takes paid leave amid probe. Operations chief denies impersonating officer.

[Ian David]

Source: The Boston Globe

By 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.

Read more: 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

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Romney Aide is Focus of Probe. Der Mittenfuhrer prepares to do the probing.

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Romney aide is the focus of probe Allegedly acted as State Police trooper
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[PSPS]

1. Break the law? Take a "paid leave" (paid vacation.) It's the republican way!

[FloridaJudy]

2. I love it! I love it!

Sometimes our side does inane things, but the clowns on the right are tripping on their dicks every time you turn around. Befriending pedophiles? Impersonating police officers? Pretending to "lose" E-mails? What next: being photographed while kicking puppies? Someone get the camera! Cheney just stepped in dog poop....

[MADem]

3. If it ain't Big Love, it's BIG HEADS!!!

What an ass! What Delusions of Grandeur!!! Wonder what he'll do if they actually DO run a voice print--we know it's GOTTA be him...unless his evil TWIN stole his cellphone!!!!

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.

A lawyer for Garrity adamantly denied that his client placed the call.

"He didn't make the phone call," said attorney Stephen Jones. "He has no connection whatsoever to the number that the call was made from. He has volunteered -- in fact, insisted -- that he wants to have a voice analysis done, which will clear him of the fact that somebody is saying he made a phone call."

Meanwhile, Garrity's own driving record reveals that his license expired in May after his failure to pay Boston parking tickets from 2005 and 2006 and parking tickets from Logan International Airport last year.

[0007]

4. ......ain't any worse than junior impersonating the president

of the United States.