Federal investigators identify local figures as ‘conduits’ of Noe-Bush $$$

Affidavit: Noe gave funds to Shultz, Thurber, Owen

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051112/NEWS24/51112003

By MIKE WILKINSON and JAMES DREW
BLADE STAFF WRITERS

Federal investigators pored through Tom Noe’s garbage and his bank records before identifying three public officials and 10 others as the people who Mr. Noe used to funnel money into President Bush’s re-election campaign, according to a record obtained by The Blade yesterday.

An affidavit filed in April with the U.S. District Court in Toledo shows that Betty Shultz, a Toledo city councilman; Maggie Thurber, a Lucas County commissioner, and Donna Owens, a member of the Ohio Industrial Commission, took checks from Mr. Noe before writing their own to the Bush-Cheney campaign.

Ms. Owens is a former mayor of Toledo who served as state commerce director under Gov. George Voinovich.

The affidavit is the first evidence from federal investigators about who was involved in the money-laundering case...


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Name them all...


* To be sung to the tune of Name Them All...

to turn over to any campaign should be indicted as well. They knew they were doing wrong - that it wasn't their money. I know the old argument that the little fish are usually not indicted so that they can get the big fish. But I have a feeling that in this case the so-called little fish are actually big fish too.

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