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Shaun Hansen

Shaun Hansen was the co-owner of Mylo Enterprises, a telemarketing firm based in Sandpoint Idaho. Hansen shut down Mylo Enterprises in January of 2003.

Hansen was indicted on March 8, 2006 on charges of conspiring to commit and aiding the commission of telephone harassment. He pleaded not guilty on March 27, 2006 and is set to stand trial beginning October 3, 2006.

Key Points:

Hansen's Mylo Enterprises was hired to perform the phone-jamming operation in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.

Sometime in October or early November of 2002, Hansen's firm was hired by Allen Raymond, president of the Virginia-based telephone service vendor GOP Marketplace. GOP Marketplace contracted Mylo Enterprises to jam the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day, November 5, 2002.

Hansen agreed to accept the job for $2,500, to be paid before the job was done. On November 4, 2002, one day before Election Day, GOP Marketplace tendered a check for $2,500 to Mylo Enterprises. (according to Tobin's May 18, 2005 indictment)

Hansen's Mylo Enterprises placed the hang-up calls to New Hampshire Democratic phone lines on the morning of Election Day 2002.

Between approximately 7:45 and 9:10 a.m. EST on November 5, 2002, employees of Mylo Enterprises in Idaho called six telephone numbers: five New Hampshire Democratic Party affiliates and the Manchester Professional Firefighters Association, which was helping with voter transportation that morning. The numbers were called several hundred times, "causing them to ring repeatedly and continuously until answered, and then hung up without disclosing their identities." (according to Tobin's May 18, 2005 indictment)

Research by Ben Craw and Amram Migdal

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