Monday, February 13, 2006
Another Bush Pioneer gets indicted
From the Toledo Blade, which deserves much praise for their coverage of this story, we learn that an Ohio grand jury has delivered up indictments on 53 counts of forgery, money laundering, theft and tampering and one RICO charge for good luck.
So let's see, Pioneer Abramoff launders money to Bush and Republicans in Congress.
Pioneer Noe launders money stolen from the State of Ohio to Bush and Republicans in Congress.
How many other Pioneers are there?
Tom Noe pleaded not guilty this morning to 53 felony charges that he stole more than $1 million from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and laundered more than $2 million from the coin funds he managed for the bureau.And besides living the high life Tom paid his dues.
Mr. Noe was taken to the Lucas County jail for processing as he attempted to post the $500,000 bond set by Judge Thomas Osowik.
A grand jury indicted Mr. Noe on 22 counts of forgery, 11 counts of money laundering, eight counts of tampering with records, six counts of aggravated theft, five counts of grand theft, and one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act....
....The state invested a total of $50 million with Mr. Noe’s Capital Coin funds, beginning with $25 million in 1998.
According to the indictment, the theft charges allege he stole more than $800,000 and laundered another $2 million.
Mr. Noe was indicted in October in U.S. District Court in Toledo on three felony counts for allegedly laundering more than $40,000 to President Bush’s re-election campaign.
So let's see, Pioneer Abramoff launders money to Bush and Republicans in Congress.
Pioneer Noe launders money stolen from the State of Ohio to Bush and Republicans in Congress.
How many other Pioneers are there?
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