(1) Tom Noe, Republican fundraiser and sweetheart of the Ohio and National GOP, pleads guilty to charges yesterday. The Columbus Dispatch has this tidbit: Saying he wanted to accept responsibility and spare his family and friends further embarrassment, indicted coin dealer Thomas W. Noe admitted yesterday that he broke federal laws to get credit for raising money for President Bush's re-election campaign....
(2) Breaking News from the Dispatch: The former chief financial officer of the scandal-plagued Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation was charged this morning with both federal and state counts related to allegations of illegal dealings with agency brokers and former coin dealer Thomas W. Noe.
Terrence W. Gasper, 59, of Worthington, was charged simultaneously in federal court in Cleveland and in Franklin County Common Pleas Court with what's called a bill of information.
That typically means the target of the charges has agreed to waive indictment and plead guilty.....
Holy cow! Those Republicans are getting indicted and pleading guilty to all of these charges. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Which Republican will be next???????
BREAKING NEWS!!! We have the 3rd Republican corruption story!!!!!!
From Raw Story: Here is an excerpt---
....CREW's complaint alleged -- and the FEC agreed -- that Frist 2000, Inc. failed to disclose a $1.44 million loan taken out jointly by Frist 2000, Inc. and by Frist's 1994 campaign committee, Bill Frist for Senate, Inc. The result of the discrepancy was to make it appear that Frist 2000, Inc. had significantly more money that it actually had.
In June 2000, Senator Frist took $1 million of the money that had been contributed to his 2000 Senate campaign and invested it in the stock market, where it promptly began losing money. In November 2000, Senator Frist sought to collect $1.2 million he had lent his 1994 Senate campaign committee. As a result of the stock market losses, however, Frist 2000, Inc. did not have enough money to repay the loan. Senator Frist solved this problem by having the 1994 and the 2000 campaign committees jointly take out a $1.44 million bank loan at a cost of $10,000 a month interest. Frist 2000, Inc. did not report this debt on its FEC disclosure forms.....
****Raw Story is reporting that a new poll has George W. Bush as the worst president in the last 61 years!!! What an accomplishment!