Noe's wife set off Noe probe by charging Diebold bribed elections chief

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/113049259353500.xml&coll=2

Noe's wife helped set probe in motion
Friday, October 28, 2005
T.C. Brown
Plain Dealer Bureau

Columbus - Tom Noe became the focus of a national political fund-raising scandal after a curious chain of events unwittingly set off by his own wife.

In January 2004, Noe's wife, Bernadette, chairwoman of the Lucas County Republican Party and a member of the county Board of Elections, and her colleague on the board Sam Thurber, took a story to the Lucas County prosecutor's office. They reported that elections board Executive Director Joe Kidd might be taking kickbacks from voting machine manufacturer Diebold, according to officials familiar with the investigation.

Bernadette Noe got the information from Kidd's wife, Tracy, a partner in Mrs. Noe's Toledo law firm. The Kidds were experiencing marital difficulties at the time.

Kidd denied the allegations, but he dropped some bombshells of his own when authorities interviewed him in March 2004. Kidd told investigators he had information that would "put the Noes in handcuffs," said Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates...

[Tesla]

1. Fight, fight, fight

Don't ya love a woman SCORNED!!!!

[slor]

2. LOL...

I really do enjoy this stuff!

[Melsky]

3. So richly deserved

and how interesting that they brought the whole thing down on themselves. That is classic.

[Land Shark]

4. Louisiana featured a decade long kickback scheme involving Sequoia

products, Sequoia denies any knowledge of the kickbacks though perhaps is forced to admit that they sole sourced the contract with Sequoia at a bit higher price than they might otherwise have gotten, with a portion of the higher price somehow coming back to elections officials in brown paper sacks of some sort, though I guess they couldn't possibly have known about the sacks either.

A kickbacked elections official is a happy elections official. the one recently on bradblog radio was a happy new Sequoia sole source customer. It's obvious there's nothing going on here.