People identified in an FBI affidavit as “conduits” that
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Tom Noe used to launder more than
ver the past 10 months, Tom Noe’s fall has cost people their jobs, their reputations, and in the case of Gov. Bob Taft, his family’s good name. The governor and two of his former aides have been
$45,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign:
MTS executives Bart Kulish, Phil Swy,
and Joe Restivo, Mr. Noe’s brother-in-law.
Sue Metzger, Noe executive assistant. Mike Boyle, Toledo businessman. Jeffrey Mann, Toledo businessman. Joe Kidd, former executive director of the
Lucas County board of elections. Lucas County Commissioner Maggie
Thurber, and her husband, Sam Thurber.
Sally Perz, a former Ohio representative, her husband, Joe Perz, and daughter,
Allison Perz. Toledo City Councilman Betty Shultz. Donna Owens, former mayor of Toledo.
H. Douglas Talbott, a Columbus lobbyist
and former aide to Gov. Bob Taft.
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convicted of accepting gifts from Mr. Noe. Two more former Taft aides will face a judge in a Columbus courtroom this week for accepting loans from the indicted coin dealer which they did not disclose.
Five of seven members of the Ohio Supreme Court stepped
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down from The Blade’s Noe records case because he had given them more than $20,000 in campaign contributions.
Mr. Noe was Judith Lanzinger’s campaign chairman.
Learned
about coin deal about a year before the scandal erupted; said her questions were answered.
Other former
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Taft aides:
work to Tom Noe’s wife’s law firm.
Doug Moormann, Columbus lobbyist. Jim Samuel, Columbus lobbyist. Jim Mermis, Columbus lobbyist. Cherie Carroll, a Columbus lobbyist and
former assistant to Brian Hicks.
Brian Hicks, Columbus lobbyist and
former Taft chief of staff.
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Bob Taft. Former Bureau of Workers’ Compensation officials:
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Terry Gasper, former chief financial officer.
James Conrad, former administrator.
Jim McLean, former chief investment officer.
Ohio businessmen whose firms received BWC money from Tom Noe:
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Mr.
Talbott was a
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John Ulmer, owner of the Westhaven Group.
Noe
Roger Ach, of Games, Inc. Bob Bennett,
chairman of the Ohio Republican Party is an investor.
‘conduit’ to the Ohio
Elected officials who
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received campaign contributions from Tom Noe: All have agreed to give the money to charity, or to return it to the Workers’ Compensation Bureau:
U.S. Senator George Voinovich.
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BOB TAFT
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.
Gov. Bob Taft
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro. Ohio Auditor Betty Montgomery.
Ohio Supreme Court Justices:
Judith Lanzinger.
Westhaven and MDL are being investigated as a result of the Noe scandal.
MDL
Evelyn Stratton.
Maureen O’Connor. Terrence O’Donnell. Thomas Moyer. (Chief Justice)
- Convicted
- Under
Investigation
- Indicted
- Fired
- Resigned
- Demoted
- Noe Golf
partner
Vacationed at Noe’s Florida home
Noe Supper Club member
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