In a sworn deposition, Vincent Panichi, the governor's 1994 campaign treasurer, told investigators that he was present at a meeting when the governor authorized an allegedly illegal reimbursement to his brother's company and former Columbus lobbyist Anthony Fabiano for Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) for hiring labor leader Ray Gallagher, a Voinovich partisan. Allegedly, the money was to be laundered through a third party, the political firm of Mamais & Associates.
On May 7, 1997, FBI and IRS agents raided Fabiano's Columbus office and seized his files and financial records as part of a secret grand jury investigation in Hamilton County.
42 posted on 05/13/2005 6:09:03 PM PDT by MikeWUSAF (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
Voinovich sticks to his conscience
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Any more to this???
Thanks for the information.
This begins to explain Voinovich, I think.
I just wonder WHO is behind Voinovich's bizarre, "sore thumb Republican" act in opposition to Bolton? As always, I suspect the answer is at the end of the money trail - - in this case, the oil-for-food money trail. Billions and billions of dollars buys a lot of "influence".
http://www.conservativerevolution.com/index.php/2005/05/13/
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/3626974.htm
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1998/11/03/loc_voinovich03.html
Ah, there's the "Sopranos" connection! "Waste Technologies Industries"...