Prosecutor Issues Indictment!

[Nbadan]

NO, not the Fitzgerald Grand Jury, yet...

Report: Noe Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
POSTED: 2:54 pm EDT October 27, 2005
UPDATED: 3:08 pm EDT October 27, 2005

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A federal grand jury has indicted a prominent Ohio GOP contributor in an investigation into contributions to President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, a defense attorney said Thursday.


Tom Noe

The Toledo Blade reported that Tom Noe, a former Toledo-area coin dealer, is suspected of laundering money into Bush’s re-election campaign.

Jon Richardson told the newspaper that he was called Thursday afternoon and informed of the indictment.

A news conference has been scheduled for 4:30 p.m. to announce the details of the indictment.

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio said the news conference would announce "a major public corruption indictment."

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Coingate goes to the very core of the stolen 04 Presidential election.

Dramatic new charges deepen link between Ohio's "Coingate," Voinovich mob connections, and the theft of the 2004 election
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
July 29, 2005

COLUMBUS -- New charges filed against Ohio Governor Bob Taft's former top aide have blazed a new trail between "Coingate" and the GOP theft of the 2004 presidential election.

Brian Hicks appears in court today to answer charges that he failed to report vacation trips he took to Coingate mastermind Tom Noe's $1.3 million home in the Florida Keys. A top Taft aide for a dozen years, Hicks stayed at Noe's place in 2002 and 2003. Another Taft aide, Cherie Carroll, is charged with taking some $500 in free dinners from Noe.

Noe is a high-roller crony of Taft, US Senator George Voinovich and President George W. Bush. Noe charged the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation nearly $13 million to invest some $58 million. Ohio Attorney-General Jim Petro, to whom Noe once donated money, says some $4 million disappeared into Noe's pocket.

The new charges against Taft's former aide are at the edge of Coingate's links to Bush, Voinovich and organized crime. Through Noe's wife Bernadette, those links extend to the GOP theft of Ohio 2004.

Tom Noe, northwest Ohio's "Mr. Republican" and a close Bush/Rove crony, is under federal investigation for making possibly illegal contributions to the Bush/Cheney campaign.

As owner of Vintage Coins and Cards in Maumee, Ohio, Noe raised more than $100,000, to become a Bush Pioneer/Ranger

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Free Press

[Marcus Bryant]

So now campaign finance hijinks matter.