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"Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contributions Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio's biggest political scandal in a generation, was sentenced today to 27 months in a federal prison for illegally funneling money into President Bush’s re-election campaign. U.S. District Court Judge David Katz also ordered Noe to pay $136,200 in fines for sending more than $45,000 into a 2003 Bush fund-raiser by using two dozen friends and associates — including several current and former local Republican elected officials — in violation of federal election laws. Noe, 52, remains free on bond until the conclusion of his trial next month on 46 felony counts in state court related to allegations that he stole millions from a $50 million rare-coin fund that he managed for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Noe, a former Maumee rare-coin dealer whose large donations made him a powerful political figure, apologized in court for the scheme to give friends money to donate to Bush to fulfill his promise to generate $50,000 for a presidential fund-raiser. Noe said he arranged the scheme because “in 2003 I was pressured by Bush-Cheney officials to become a Pioneer,” a name the campaign gives to people who raise $100,000."

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/BREAKINGNEWS/60912029

ahahhahaaaa...soon there will be more republican politicians in prison than in Congress!

9/12/2006 10:13:57 PM

9/12/2006 10:24:51 PM

when republicans break the law, they funnel money to anti-terrorist and anti-communist causes

when democrats break the law, they simply lie to the people

9/12/2006 10:32:01 PM

Did George W. Bush ever smoke marijuana?

9/12/2006 10:32:33 PM

nah...he snorted coke and drove while intoxicated.

9/12/2006 10:35:05 PM

Of course if someone helped fund Bush's campaign, it must me the President is evil.

9/12/2006 11:25:42 PM

I'm gonna copy/paste everything I find about something/someone I hate and put it on tww

9/13/2006 12:02:52 AM

^thats what the soapbox is, you dipshit

[Edited on September 13, 2006 at 12:45 AM. Reason : 3]

9/13/2006 12:35:59 AM

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"Of course if someone helped fund Bush's campaign, it must me the President is evil. "

You are known by the company you keep...

9/13/2006 12:45:38 AM

Well, this guy broke the law and is going to prison. Seems like justice was served. End of story.

You're reading far too much in to this if you're trying to pin it on the whole Republican Party.

I didn't blame all democrats for James Traficant, and his crimes were surely more severe than trying to give a politican extra money for commercials.

9/13/2006 7:08:16 AM

Rep William Jefferson (D), Luisiana

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"You are known by the company you keep... "

im sure he and ol' W were in constant contact

[Edited on September 13, 2006 at 7:16 AM. Reason : asdf]

9/13/2006 7:15:13 AM

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"You're reading far too much in to this if you're trying to pin it on the whole Republican Party."

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"Noe said he arranged the scheme because “in 2003 I was pressured by Bush-Cheney officials to become a Pioneer,” a name the campaign gives to people who raise $100,000.""

9/13/2006 8:29:05 AM

Yes, obviously they intended for his to raise that money illegally.

Or, perhaps, they expected him to do it the same way the other Pioneers raised their $100,000: family and business contacts.

9/13/2006 8:34:28 AM

OMG THE WIRE

9/13/2006 8:37:12 AM

I'm half tempted to make a thread "Another Demoncrat Doesn't Go to Prison"

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"On July 18, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, which was intended to be a reunion of those who had worked on his brother Robert's 1968 presidential campaign. Kennedy drove away with party guest Mary Jo Kopechne as a passenger in his 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88. According to Kennedy, he made a wrong turn onto an unlit road that led to Dike Bridge (also spelled Dyke Bridge), a wooden bridge angled obliquely to the road with no guardrail, and drove over its side. The car plunged into tide-swept Poucha Pond (at that location a channel) and came to rest upside down underwater. Kennedy was able to swim free of the vehicle, but passenger Kopechne was not. He then walked away from the accident and his dead guest. Kennedy discussed the accident with several people, including his lawyer and Kopechne's parents, before he contacted the police more than 10 hours after the accident. The incident quickly became a scandal. Kennedy was criticized for allegedly driving drunk, for failing to save Kopechne, for failing to summon help immediately, and for contacting not the police but rather his lawyer first. Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a sentence of two months in jail, which was suspended."

I'm sure that the whole Democratic Party can be defined by the company they keep.

9/13/2006 8:41:01 AM

^
leave pryderi alone, he's still trying to recover from discovering Armitage was the CIA leak instead of Rove

9/13/2006 9:51:15 AM

^^

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" Mrs. Bush ran stop sign in fatal crash AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Details in a 1963 accident report say that Laura Bush, then 17, ran a stop sign in the Texas crash that killed a friend in another car. The report, adding information to previous reports of the crash, was released to The Associated Press on Wednesday. Mrs. Bush now is the wife of Republican presidential nominee-to-be George W. Bush, the Texas governor. ''It was a very tragic accident that deeply affected the families and was very painful for all involved, including the community at large,'' said Mrs. Bush's spokesman, Andrew Malcolm. ''To this day, Mrs. Bush remains unable to talk about it.'' She did say in March, when asked at a campaign stop about the crash, ''I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing ... for the family involved and for me as well.'' There had been published accounts of the accident, but city officials had declined to release the records because those involved were under 18. The police report was released Wednesday in response to an open-records request that was submitted to Midland officials in March. According to the two-page accident report, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report. The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55. Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram. The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank. ''As far as we know, no charges were filed,'' said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ''I don't think it's unusual that charges weren't filed.'' "

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm

9/13/2006 10:10:55 AM

^

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9/13/2006 10:16:44 AM

scroll down

9/13/2006 10:28:29 AM

^
a 17-year-old girl running a stop sign vs a 37-year-old man letting a woman drown and then talking to his lawyer before calling police...

I tell you, them Bushes are all evil... 

9/13/2006 10:31:54 AM

^^^^I guess if Laura Welch (Bush) was a Democrat she'd be elected into office instead of just being married to someone in office.



[Edited on September 13, 2006 at 10:39 AM. Reason : ^]

9/13/2006 10:36:47 AM

oh shit a Democrat goes to prison oh my god wtf

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/11/traficant.trial/index.html

9/13/2006 10:50:49 AM

chappaquiddik what what?

9/13/2006 11:01:48 AM

He's totally right, a traffic accident due to running a stop sign is totally the same as being shitfaced and wrecking the car, then failing to even try to rescue your friend, then calling your lawyer and her parents, before you ever call for help from the police.

WTF? Corky just called and said that comparison is retarded.

9/13/2006 11:49:40 AM

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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican congressman agreed to plead guilty to illegally accepting tens of thousands of dollars in trips, meals, drinks and tickets, becoming the first U.S. lawmaker convicted in the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal, U.S. officials said on Friday. The plea deal represented a sharp reversal for Ohio Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), who had denied any wrongdoing. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 and abandoned his race for re-election last month as the federal investigation intensified into his links to the convicted lobbyist Abramoff. The Abramoff scandal and other corruption cases have hurt Republicans as they seek to keep control of the U.S. Congress in the November elections. Abramoff, a former top Washington lobbyist, had close ties to congressional leaders, especially Republicans. "Congressman Ney admits that he corruptly solicited and accepted a stream of benefits valued at tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for agreeing to perform and performing a series of official acts," Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher said. "He also admitted deceiving the public and the U.S. House of Representatives about his actions," she said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/pl_nm/crime_abramoff_ney_dc_9

9/16/2006 12:24:12 AM

One down, 534 to go.

9/18/2006 8:08:27 AM