Taft aide asked Noe about job candidate

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Taft aide asked Noe about job candidate
Input sought in 2003 to fill ODOT position

By JAMES DREW
and STEVE EDER
BLADE STAFF WRITERS

COLUMBUS - A high-ranking aide to Gov. Bob Taft asked Tom Noe for his advice on the administration's decision to hire a new deputy director for the Ohio Department of Transportation district in Bowling Green, e-mails released by the governor's office this week show...

The Ohio Ethics Commission has referred its investigation of Mr. Moormann to prosecutors for review. No decision has been made whether to file charges against Mr. Moormann, who received a $5,000 loan from Mr. Noe in 2004 after he had left the governor's office, said Stephen McIntosh, chief prosecutor for the Columbus city attorney's office...

"What in the world is it the business of Tom Noe, the rare- coin dealer, who gets hired at ODOT?'' said state Sen. Marc Dann, a Youngstown-area Democrat who is seeking his party's nomination to run for attorney general next year. "It shows how grateful Taft was to get his campaign contributions."...

w● Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett responded to questions from House Minority Leader Chris Redfern (D., Catawba Island) about how the Republican leader planned to handle the Lucas County officials who have been alleged as conduits in the Noe money-laundering investigation. Mr. Bennett, in a letter, accused Mr. Redfern of trying to "exploit" the investigation, and told the Democrat to "take steps to clean up the corruption in your own party."...


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