Ohio GOP chief says he alerted justices(this month to 2004 dirty Noe $$$)

[Algorem]

Campaign reports raised red flags' Bennett checked campaign reports
(oh,sure,he just noticed this month,after Noe was indicted)

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/11317914284040.xml&coll=2

Saturday, November 12, 2005

-- Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett revealed Friday that he tipped off three Supreme Court justices about potential legal problems with campaign contributions they received from H. Douglas Talbott.

Bennett said he had no inside information. But he began to look for anything "odd and weird" in campaign finance records after a federal grand jury indicted former Maumee coin dealer Tom Noe last month on charges of illegally using friends and associates, or "conduits," to give $45,400 to the 2003 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

Talbott, a former top aide to Govs. Bob Taft and George Voinovich, told a federal grand jury he was one of the conduits. State investigators are looking at a $39,000 interest-free loan Talbott took from Noe in 2002 to buy a house.

A July 25, 2004, fund-raiser Noe held for Supreme Court candidates at his Catawba Island home caught Bennett's eye. Talbott, whose contributions were usually in the $300 to $500 range, gave Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and Justices Terrence O'Donnell and Judith Lanzinger $1,000 each at that event, he said...

[lonestarnot]

1. More interesting info. Thanks for posting.

[tanyev]

2. That's quite an odor pouring out of Ohio. Phew!