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NEWARK - New Jersey political fund raiser David D'Amiano was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for soliciting and accepting $40,000 in cash and political contributions from a Piscataway farm owner to influence state and county officials to offer a favorable price to preserve the farmland, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls also ordered D'Amiano, 45, of Edison, to pay a $15,000 fine to the federal government and to make $1,000 in restitution to the Democratic State Committee. D'Amiano already has paid another $20,000 to the government - money which he took from...

A California-based group op posed to the use of eminent do main is planning a protest over the weekend at a Piscataway farm seized by the township. The group wants to show support for the Halper family, who must be off the property by Monday afternoon. "We must draw a line in the sand and say: NO MORE!," reads a notice posted on www.freerepublic.com, a site run by Freestar Media LLC, a conservative organization that lobbies against eminent domain. "We must defend our constitutional right to own property. If this event isn't worthy of your time, then you will never...

We need YOU to drive your RV, pitch your tents, and take a stand against eminent domain abuse by camping out at the Halper Farm until the moment of eviction. We hope it will be like Valley Forge without the frostbite and Woodstock without the mud. We have received word that the government plans to send over a large number of well armed police officers to evict this family from what is rightfully theirs. We must draw a line in the sand and say: NO MORE! We must defend our constitutional right to own property. If this event isn't worthy...

SENATOR JOHN KERRY'S Vietnam War record has been a focus of the presidential campaign for weeks. For a New York company that produces reality-based video games, that makes the topic ripe for a jump from politics to pixels. The company, Kuma Reality Games, which specializes in recreating military encounters, is making one of Mr. Kerry's Swift boat missions the situation for a game. It says that the game is intended to entertain and to inform, and that it is nonpartisan. Armed with a computer keyboard, players are invited to enter an interactive simulation of Viet Cong ambushes on a small...