Noe blames Bush/Cheney Campaign for crimes

Tom Noe is saying that the Bush/Cheney campaign pushed him to break the law:

Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio’s biggest political scandal in a generation, claimed that pressure from the Bush-Cheney campaign led him to commit the campaign-finance crimes for which he was sentenced yesterday to federal prison.

U.S. District Judge David Katz ordered Noe, 52, to spend 27 months in prison and to pay $136,200 in fines for giving two dozen friends and associates money to attend a high-priced luncheon with President Bush in 2003 in Columbus.

Now, I realize this may be nothing more than a Flip Wilson, "the Devil, he made me do it," excuse, but I doubt anyone will even investigate to find out.