BALTIMORE (AP) - A political aide to former Gov. Robert Ehrlich has received a 1-year suspended sentence and 30 days of home detention for conspiring to use Election Day robocalls in what prosecutors cast as an effort to suppress black voter turnout.
Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill sentenced Paul Schurick in Baltimore on Thursday. The judge also ordered Schurick to serve 500 hours of community service.
Schurick was convicted of conspiring to use fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's decision to go to the polls and to publish campaign material without an authority line. He was also found guilty of using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's decision to go to the polls and publishing campaign material without an authority line.
