Ohio Elections Commission rules Noe violated election law; refers case for possible prosecution

Source: Toledo Blade

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.

"This is enough to show that Mr. Noe, as he did in the federal system, has funneled contributions to state candidates," said Rick Brunner, the attorney representing Marc Dann, who filed the complaint last year while he was a Democratic candidate for attorney general.


Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS02/70531018

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New charges against Tom Noe

WTVG--May 31, 2007 - The Ohio Elections Commission has recommended prosecutors go after Tom Noe with new charges. These charges allege Noe illegally funneled campaigning money to state candidates.

The case is based largely on an article The Blade published last September in which Sue Metzger, Noe's former executive assistant, said she funneled $5,000 Noe gave her to state candidates.
Using the article, the election commission made allegations against Noe that happened in October of last year. Hearings on the case were delayed until today and in that time, the Commissions Chief Attorney says Noe never answered questions about the allegations.

Phil Richter says, "He was given the time to deny these allegations. No denial was ever submitted, and so the commission had the ability to consider the failure to deny as an admission, and the commission did."

more:http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=5357114

Noe's defenders lied, again and again. Just how and why they are allowed to ever again contribute to a public forum is enormously troubling.
The big lie-we couldn't find him to present him with these additional charges, because you were moving him around so he couldn't defend himself by denying them. Yeah, right.

And then, the big, inspired question right at the end of the article-if you'd had a full pardon to hand to him, could you have gotten ahold of him?
"Absolutely."

Republican assholes are such prevaricators, transparently so to a careful listener and questione, yet they keep being respected as though they were real, honest people and are allowed to contiue with their crimes, greed and falsehoods.

I am ashamed and exasperated with humans.

Tom and Bernadette Noe are too dumb to act on their own.

After funnelling the cash to Rove's carefully chosen election thieves, Noe decided to freelance a bit and got his butt in a sling.

He'll certainly just "pull a Scooter," and no county DA is going to try a purely circumstantial case of presidential election theft.

Still, this further delegitimizes the never-elected, war criminal regime.

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