Reply #12: Taft didn’t tell of golf outings [View All]

[Gunit_Sangh]

I saw an earlier posting from AP about this, but the Columbus Dispatch has much, much more. It looks like Noe may really be singing!


http://www.dispatch.com/election.php?story=dispatch/2005/06/22/20050622-A1-00.html

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The rush to amend disclosure statements followed subpoenas for records issued by state Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to Taft, members of his staff and other public officials. On May 23, Charles asked Taft’s office for records because he found during his investigation that "certain members of the governor’s staff may have received lodging accommodations and other items" from Noe.

Taft said in a June 14 letter to the Ethics Commission that it has "recently come to my attention that I failed to list a number of golf outings or events on my financial disclosure forms over the past several years."

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Public officials are prohibited from accepting a golf outing from someone who is "interested in matters before, regulated by, or doing or seeking to do business" with the official’s agency, under a 2001 Ethics Commission opinion.

The law also forbids anyone who has business or official relationships with a public agency from promising or giving a round of golf to officials at the agency, the opinion says.