Tom Noe of Coingate fame & funneling illegal donations to Bush/Cheney in MORE trouble.

[LiberalHeart]

http://toledoblade.com

COLUMBUS — Tom Noe’s legal problems continued to mount this morning as the Ohio Elections Commission referred for possible prosecution an allegation that Noe illegally funneled campaign contributions to state candidates through other people.

The commission unanimously found that Noe violated election law by concealing or misrepresenting campaign contributions. By a vote of 6-1, it then asked that the prosecutor in either Lucas County or Franklin County consider pursuing a formal criminal charge against the former Toledo area coin dealer and influential GOP fund-raiser.

(snip)

The commission voted 4-3 to hold a full hearing later on the alleged role of Sue Metzger, Noe’s former executive assistant, as a conduit for the campaign cash, delaying a final decision because of unsuccessful attempts to reach her under two names in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The case against her is based largely on an article in The Blade last September in which Ms. Metzger admitted outside the Lucas County Courthouse to serving as a conduit for at least $5,000 from Noe to candidates.

Noe’s attorney, Craig Calcaterra had urged the commission to delay a decision in Noe’s case, saying transfers from prison in Lucas County to federal facilities in Michigan, Oklahoma, Georgia, and finally Florida made it next to impossible for Noe to respond to 58 assertions of fact submitted by Mr. Brunner in February. Those assertions claimed Noe used others to funnel money to the campaigns of then Gov. Bob Taft, Auditor Betty Montgomery, Attorney General Jim Petro, Supreme Court candidate Judith Lanzinger, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, Justice Terrence O’Donnell, and other candidates.


(There's more at the Blade's website)

[myrna minx]

1. Who knew being a conduit could sound so sexy.

Noe's Conduit, a new reality TV show coming to FOX next fall!

[L. Coyote]

2. Ohio seems to be a heartland of the Culture of Corruption

and there are a lot of others in the same pokey as Noe.

This long-lived DU thread has links to some of the corrupt heads and their tales.

Cuyahoga Co. Elections Director Resigns (OH)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2719564&mesg_id=2719564

[L. Coyote]

3. K&R. An Rs OH Who's Who = Taft, Montgomery, Petro, Lanzinger, Moyer, O'Donnell, plus

Article published Thursday, May 31, 2007 - COLUMBUS — (Posted at 12:55 p.m.)
Ohio Elections Commission rules Noe violated election law; refers case for possible prosecution
By JIM PROVANCE - BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS02/70531018

.... unanimously found that Noe violated election law by concealing or misrepresenting campaign contributions. By a vote of 6-1, it then asked that the prosecutor in either Lucas County or Franklin County consider pursuing a formal criminal charge

..... 58 assertions of fact submitted by Mr. Brunner in February. Those assertions claimed Noe used others to funnel money to the campaigns of then Gov. Bob Taft, Auditor Betty Montgomery, Attorney General Jim Petro, Supreme Court candidate Judith Lanzinger, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, Justice Terrence O’Donnell, and other candidates.

The commission, ... given Noe’s lack of response, accepted the assertions as admitted facts in the case against him.............

[Eugene]

4. K & R and this from the AP...

Source: Associated Press

Ohio coin dealer faces new allegations

By JOHN McCARTHY, Associated Press Writer
54 minutes ago

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The commission referred the case to prosecutors in Toledo and
Columbus, panel director Phil Richter said. If convicted, Noe
faces a $10,000 fine.

-snip-

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/investment_scandal_1

Toledo Blade article link: Ohio Elections Commission rules Noe violated election law; refers case for possible prosecution

[Robbien]

5. Well it is about darn time

This all came out when the coingate was being investigated but everyone seemed to just passed it on by. I expect Noe then used the exact same techniques to bundle money to the Bush campaign in 2004 and the RNC in 2006.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Wait - this guy's not in jail yet?

After being caught red-handed (so to speak) cheating the taxpayers?

I thought he was gone about the same time as Abramoff...

[diane in sf]

7. Lock him up. Now. eom

[DFW]

8. Last I heard, he started serving his sentence last year

Seeing as how the Feds sentenced him to 18 years,
I think a $10,000 fine is the least of his worries.

Bets on Bush pardoning him before leaving office?

[EFerrari]

9. K&R for all the OH citizens who were ripped off by these bastards.

[L. Coyote]

13. Ditto that. K&R

[peacetheonlyway]

10. What about Bernadette Noe

the woman deserves to be in jail too.

for any of you late night wanna have fun, their email is [email protected] last time I checked.

send them an email saying you did not appreciate their stealing elections in Ohio.

Ms. Noe was the elections director I think in some county in Ohio that locked the machines in a warehouse and would not let a recount happen election night 2004.

she is as evil as her husband, falls in the category of Mob Boss Wife just like donna curling of choicepoint.

we have to hold everyone in the wider net of Mr. Tom Noe accountable too.

the man did not exist in a vacuum. there were accomplices..

Noe did much more than funnel campaign money. peak behind the curtain he's almost jack abramoffish in his total crime picture...

[gratuitous]

12. Subverting the electoral process in a time of war

Shameful! I wonder why Mr. Noe wasn't declared an enemy combatant by the Bush administration?

[Supersedeas]

11. the Repig trough is deep and full of dirty money

[samplegirl]

14. Add this to Blackwells handing out illegal bonuses.

Put Blackwell behind bars right with him.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS24/70531026


You get a car....you get a car.......you get a car! Dig into your large bank accounts Repubicans and return Ohio's money.

[OzarkDem]

15. There is so much more to this story

leading all the way back to the WH.

[L. Coyote]

16. A good Bush buddy