Important note:
From Wiki:
“In August, the RNC finally confirmed that it had spent more than $722,000 for
Tobin's defense by the Washington firm of Williams & Connolly. " This support
is based on his assurance and our belief that Jim has not engaged in any
wrongdoing," a spokesperson told the Associated Press. The Union Leader
reported in February 2006 that the RNC had paid $1.7 million to Williams on the
day Tobin was sentenced, for a total of $2.5 million, and would neither confirm
nor deny that it was still paying his legal expenses. The RNC's first financial
report of 2006 indicated that it by then spent another $330,000. Later that year,
Tobin's wife was hired by the NRSC as a consultant on the unsuccessful re-
election campaign of Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee, as Northeast
Strategies, a company that listed the Tobins' home as its main address. Despite
her lack of any previous experience, she was paid at $300,000."
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