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   From: nobody@yamn.paranoici.org   
      
   A New Jersey congressman has fired his chief of staff -- a former   
   Obama aide -- after the aide was arrested in Maryland on a charge of   
   soliciting sex from a minor.   
      
   Democratic Rep. Steve Rothman took the action after learning that   
   top aide Robert Decheine was among 11 people snared in a   
   Gaithersburg, Md., police sting. Police placed ads on a website and   
   an undercover officer communicated with customers through phone and   
   text messages.   
      
   Police said the 48-year-old was arrested on Nov. 17 after soliciting   
   to have sex with an underage girl. Decheine was released on $15,000   
   bail.  Eleven arrests were made during the operation, which came in   
   phases. First, ads were placed online and an undercover officer   
   began communicating with each "John," according to the Website TMP.   
      
   Decheine told the newspaper in an e-mail message he had no comment.   
   Decheine was a senior advisor to the Obama campaign in 2008,   
   according to PolitickerNJ. He previously served as chief of staff to   
   Rep. Bill Luther (D-MN).   
      
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