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20070720
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Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
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 Law
Enforcement -  Politics
-  Massachusetts
- 2008
Election - "Romney
aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic."
... "In an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to [Republican
2008 election Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor]
ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he
and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters,
avoid paying tolls and trick security guards into giving them immediate
access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald." ... "The bogus badges
were part of the bizarre security tactics allegedly employed by Jay Garrity,
the director of operations for Romney who is under investigation for impersonating
a law enforcement officer in two states." ... "“They (the [Mitt Romney]
aides) knew the badges were fake and probably illegal,” said a presidential
campaign source who asked for anonymity because the story could damage
the individual’s career. “But they went along with it because Jay (Garrity)
pushed it on them.”" ... "In addition to Garrity, other [Mitt Romney] aides
who used the badges included advance staffers Mark Glanville and William
Ritter, the source said." (1,
2)
-By Casey Ross -BostonHerald.com
20070625
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Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Politics
- 2008
Election -
 Reporter
-  Car
-  Surveillance
-  New
Hampshire - Massachusetts
- "Fortune
reporter: Garrity pulled me over, too." ... "After
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovitch reported
on June 16 that an aide to [2008 election Republican Presidential candidate]
Mitt Romney -- later identified as Jay Garrity, Romney's director of operations
-- had ordered him to stop following Romney's car on a campaign trip to
New Hampshire, Romney's campaign denied that Leibovitch's car was ever
pulled over." ... "Now another reporter is saying she had an experience
similar to Leibovitch's account. Marcia Vickers, a senior writer with Fortune
magazine, said that while trailing Romney in New Hampshire on Memorial
Day for a forthcoming magazine piece, Garrity instructed her at one point
to stop tailing Romney's car." ... "The incident with Leibovitch, in which
Garrity, by Leibovitch's account, also told him he had run his license
plate number, has prompted an investigation by the New Hampshire attorney
general's office. State law prohibits private citizens from accessing license
plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens. Garrity is now on paid
leave amid an investigation by Massachusetts State Police into whether
he impersonated
a state trooper in a May 13 phone call to a Wilmington [Massachusetts]
company." -By Scott Helman
-Boston/Globe
20070622
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Mitt
Romney
- 2008
Election - Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Car
- Politics
- Massachusetts
- "Romney
aide, targeted in probe, takes leave of absence."
... "[2008 election Republican Presidential candidate] Mitt Romney's director
of operations is taking a leave of absence from the presidential campaign
after becoming the focus of an investigation into allegations that he posed
as a state trooper in a recorded
phone call [transcript] complaining about a company's driver, the campaign
announced today." ... "During the phone call, a recording of which was
made by the answering service and obtained by the Globe, a man calling
himself "Trooper Garrity of the Massachusetts State Police" threatens to
cite the driver he says he saw speeding and cutting off cars in the Ted
Williams Tunnel." -By Stephanie Ebbert -Boston/Globe
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 TV
Report - Mitt
Romney
- 2008
Election - Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Politics
- "[2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Romney Aide [Jay Garrity] Takes
Leave Amid [Police Officer] Impersonation Accusation."
-MyFoxBoston.com
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Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Car
- Politics
- Massachusetts
-
 Mother's-Day
- 2008
Election - "Romney
aide takes leave amid probes." ... "An ever-present
aide to [2008 election] Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney took
a leave of absence Friday after he became the subject of investigations
in two states for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer. His
attorney denied the charges." ... "Jay Garrity, who serves as director
of operations and is constantly at the side of the former Massachusetts
governor, is accused of leaving a lengthy message with the answering service
of a plumbing company on Mother's Day, identifying himself as "Trooper
Garrity" of the Massachusetts State Police and complaining about erratic
driving by a company driver." ... "In 2004, Garrity was cited and fined
by Massachusetts officials after a Ford Crown Victoria registered to him
was found to have lights, a siren, radios and other law enforcement equipment
-- including a baton -- after it was parked illegally in Boston's North
End." -By Glen Johnson -AP
via -BostonGlobe
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 Listen
to phone call - Mitt
Romney
- 2008
Election - Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Politics
- "Listen
to Phone Call at Center of [2008 election Republican President Mitt] Romney
Aide [Jay Garrity Police Officer Impersonation] Probe."
-MyFoxBoston.com
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Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
- Political
- Police
- Car
- Massachusetts
-
 Company
- New
Hampshire - Databases
- Reporter
- Privacy
- 2008
Election - "Romney
aide is the focus of probe: Allegedly acted as State
Police trooper." ... "State Police are investigating one of [2008 election
Republican Presidential candidate] Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for
allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington [Massachusetts]
company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic
driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe."
... "Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential
campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target
of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities
traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him" ... "The New Hampshire
attorney general, according to the Associated Press, has also opened an
investigation into a report that a Romney aide, later identified as Garrity,
pulled over a New York Times reporter in New Hampshire and said he had
run his license plate." ... "New Hampshire law prohibits private citizens
from accessing license plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens."
... "In 2004, the Globe reported, Garrity was cited and fined for driving
a Crown Victoria with red and blue lights mounted in the grill, a siren,
a PA system, and strobe lights; and for having a nightstick and identification
showing a State Police patch that read "Official Business."" -By
Stephanie Ebbert and Scott Helman with contributions by Suzanne Smalley,
Andrea Estes, and Jonathan Saltzman -Boston/Globe
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