Toledo Blade: Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contri

OHIO SCANDAL
Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contributions

By MIKE WILKINSON
BLADE STAFF WRITER

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 48 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.

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