4 Plead "No Contest" in Ohio Ethics Case.

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4 Plead No Contest in Ohio Ethics Case

By JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press Writer


This 1999 photo, released by the Ohio General Assembly, shows Sally Ann Perz, one of four former or current Republican officeholders who will be charged with violating ethics laws as part of an investigation of a scheme to illegally funnel campaign donations to President Bush's re-election campaign, the latest fallout from a year long political scandal. (AP Photo/Ohio General Assembly via The Columbus Dispatch)



TOLEDO, Ohio
In a scandal that has shaken the state's Republican-dominated government, four Ohio politicians pleaded no contest Wednesday to ethics violations.

Lucas County Commissioner Maggie Thurber, Toledo City Councilwoman Betty Shultz, former Toledo Mayor Donna Owens and former state Rep. Sally Perz were fined $1,000 each on misdemeanor charges of failing to report gifts worth more than $75.

They were accused of receiving money from prominent GOP donor Tom Noe, then contributing it to President Bush's re-election campaign in their own names in an alleged scheme by Noe to skirt laws limiting individual contributions to $2,000.

The four bring to 14 the number of people charged in the scandal centered on Noe, who was hired by the Ohio Workers' Compensation Bureau to manage a $50 million investment in rare coins.

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