Consultant gets jail time in Md. robocalls case

BALTIMORE (AP) — A campaign consultant was led from court in handcuffs Wednesday, sentenced to 60 days in jail for election fraud conspiracy involving Election Day robocalls that prosecutors said were aimed at keeping black voters from the polls.

In comments before the sentence was handed down, Julius Henson, who worked for former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s campaign during his 2010 rematch with Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley, called his prosecutions in state and federal court a “witch-hunt.”