Toledo Blade: Taft to get reprimand under deal

[Eugene]

Article published Saturday, July 8, 2006

ETHICS VIOLATION
Taft to get reprimand under deal
Governor broke attorneys' professional behavior code

By JAMES DREW
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS — Gov. Bob Taft, who has been an attorney in Ohio since 1976, would
receive a public reprimand for his conviction last year on misdemeanor ethics violations,
under an agreement reached between the governor’s private attorney and the Ohio
Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel.

The pact, referred to as a “consent to discipline” and similar to a plea agreement, must
gain approval of the Supreme Court’s Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline
and the seven member high court.

“I admit the violation… as outlined in this agreement,” Mr. Taft wrote in an affidavit
attached to the six-page agreement that The Blade obtained yesterday.

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In his court-ordered apology to Ohioans, Mr. Taft admitted that over seven years
he failed to report 45 golf outings, including one in 2002 with Toledo-area coin dealer
Tom Noe, as well six other social events and a Senior Open gift set from Noe.

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Full article: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060708/NEWS24/307080020

Also: Ohio Governor Faces Public Reprimand - AP

[OzarkDem]

1. I suppose

that result would have nothing to do with the fact that the Ohio Supreme Court is controlled by the GOP and that many of the OH SC Justices received tens of thousands in campaign contributions from the same people who bribed Taft? No?