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Woman Indicted in Bush Tape Release

By Karen Gullo Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 6, 2001; 4:52 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON –– A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former employee of a media company that handled ads for President Bush's campaign in connection with the release of a Bush debate tape to Vice President Al Gore's campaign.

Juanita Yvette Lozano of Austin, Texas, was charged with mail fraud, false statements to the FBI and perjury. If convicted, she faces 15 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in Texas.

Lozano worked for Maverick Media, an Austin company that handled Bush's political ads.

The indictment alleged that Lozano secretly copied more than 120 pages of debate preparation documents and a 60-minute videotape of a debate preparation session with Bush and his advisers and sent it to the Gore campaign under a different name.

She lied to FBI agents investigating the matter and testified falsely before the grand jury, the indictment said.

Attempts to reach Lozano in Austin were not immediately successful, and her attorney, Christopher Gunter, was not immediately available, his office said.

Lozano sent the package to former Rep. Tom Downey, who was helping Gore prepare for debates, with a note bearing the name "Amy Smith," the indictment alleged.

It quoted the note as saying: "I will call you soon to find out what other materials can be useful to the VP."

Downey turned the package over to the FBI, which began an investigation.

The FBI obtained a videotape from a surveillance camera at the post office where the package was mailed. The tape showed Lozano mailing a package at a time that corresponded to when the debate package was mailed, law enforcement officials have said.

At the time, Lozano said she was mailing a pair of khakis back to The Gap for her boss, Mark McKinnon, a top Bush adviser.

Democratic officials in Austin have said that Lozano was a precinct chairwoman for the Democratic Party.

Lozano denied mailing the package to Downey when she was interviewed by the FBI in September and when she testified before the grand jury, the indictment said.

Contrary to her statements, it said, Lozano schemed "to use her position as a trusted employee of Maverick Media ...to obtain access to the Bush Campaign's confidential and sensitive debate preparation materials ... to assist Gore in his preparation for the presidential debates."

In charging her with mail fraud, the indictment said Lozano defrauded the Bush campaign of confidential work products and defrauded Maverick Media of her "honest services."

The case is being prosecuted by the public integrity section of the Justice Department.

© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

GOTCHA!!! FACING MAJOR JAIL TIME

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), March 06, 2001

Answers

Campaign 2000 is tired. The Cheney Deathpool is wired.

-- (@ .), March 06, 2001.

Why can't she lie under oath? Clinton did.

-- David Whitelaw (i'm@the.REZ), March 06, 2001.

Why can't she lie under oath? Bush sr and Bush jr did.

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), March 07, 2001.

And where in American jurisprudence does it state that everyone who is indicted is guilty and does jail time? Please cite the statute(s).

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 07, 2001.

Of course she's guilty, and you know what's gonna happen to her? We're gonna put her to death!! (tee hee hee!) I love this job!

-- G. W. "Dubya" Bush (president@united.states), March 07, 2001.


I know one thing.

"@" must not live in eastern NC.

Anybody talks about good men who are having health problems like that around here, we tie 'em to a tree out in the boonies and leave 'em for a few days.

That way they can't type stupid crap and post it to any internet forums for a while.

After that they're a bit more humble.

-- Chicken Little (cluck@cluck.com), March 07, 2001.


On behalf of all southerners, except perhaps those who live in eastern NC, I want to disavow Chicken Little's comments. Contrary to popular myth, the first amendment is in effect throughout the south and the overwhelming majority of us heartily endorse an individual's right to make an ass out of him or herself without fear of physical assault. Also, I'd like to remind everyone that Redemption was just a movie. Most of us are not uneducated, violent hicks with a fascination for homoerotic violence, exception possibly in Chicken Little's neck of the woods.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), March 07, 2001.

Tarzan, Redemption or Deliverence?

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 07, 2001.

off.

-- off (off@off.off), March 07, 2001.

If she is/was a "democract," why was she hired to work for the GOP? Because Karl Rove used her to set up another of his famous hatchet jobs, that's why.

Yet another smear campaign by Team Bushit.

-- Ain't the Swallowing Idiot (swallow@whole.com), March 07, 2001.



Bemused-

Both.

;-)

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingignthroughthejunglewithouta.net), March 07, 2001.


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