So, if illegal money was funneled into that campaign, we should have a do-over, right?
Yet another player exposed in the Culture of Corruption.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A prominent Republican fund-raiser for President George W. Bush in Ohio has been charged with illegally funneling money to Bush's re-election campaign, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
A federal grand jury in Toledo charged Thomas Noe with making illegal contributions in the names of others to the Bush campaign and with making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
The three counts lodged against Noe each carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine.
A separate investigation is examining a money-losing investment in rare coins Noe made for the state of Ohio.
The indictment alleged Noe had pledged to raise $50,000 for a fund-raiser for the Bush campaign held in Ohio on October 30, 2003. Tickets to the event cost $2,000 each. It said Noe disguised $45,400 in personal contributions by recruiting and providing money to 24 friends and associates who made the contributions in their names so he could avoid the individual campaign contribution limit of $2,000.
In some cases, Noe's reimbursements to contributors differed just slightly from the amount provided to the campaign to try to disguise their purpose, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Gregory White, who announced the indictment.
I'm starting to think that we should look at the books in every state. Whaddayawanna bet this goes on all the time?