Bush Admin. "Pioneer" Pleads Guilty To Campaign Money-Laundering Scheme...

Toledo Blade | MIKE WILKINSON, JAMES DREW | June 1, 2006 at 01:55 PM
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More than two years after investigators began probing Tom Noe's vaunted political fund-raising ability, he admitted yesterday that he used friends and colleagues to illegally pour thousands of dollars into the effort to re-elect President Bush.

Noe, whose fund-raising acumen earned him star status as a Bush "Pioneer" and helped him secure coveted federal and state political appointments, pleaded guilty to all three felony counts he faced.

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