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Concord, N.H. -- Fraudulent bookkeeping last year crushed Democrat Burt Cohen's U.S. Senate hopes. Now the man responsible for it faces a prison term. Jesse Burchfield, 32, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to one count of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. Burchfield has been in California since quitting the campaign in June 2004, around the time Cohen aides realized they were unable to account for thousands of dollars in campaign cash. The discovery killed Cohen's campaign on June 10, 2004, one day before the filing period closed. "I look forward to justice being done,"...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: RNC Press202-863-8614 WASHINGTON - RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie today responded to the politicalization of the Iraqi POW treatment by the Kerry Campaign to raise campaign cash. "The prison images from Baghdad are clearly disgusting, but it's harder to find words to describe those whose first instinct upon seeing them is to raise campaign cash with them. The words and actions of the Kerry Campaign over the past 48 hours show that in times that call for positive answers, they can only offer political attacks. In a situation that requires firm leadership, they put forward fundraising appeals."...