From The Associated Press, 7/5/05:
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/12060457.htm
State business director suspended over criminal allegations
DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -
Missouri's business recruitment director was suspended without pay
Tuesday after the state Democratic Party claimed she previously had
been convicted of theft in Illinois.
Randa A. Hayes, 33, was named director of the state Division of
Business Development and Trade in Republican Gov. Matt Blunt's
administration in late March.
Before that, she worked on President Bush's re-election campaign in
Missouri.
Democrats say the conviction occurred before Hayes got married and
moved to Missouri.
Court records from Cook County, Ill., show Randa A. Ismail was charged
in 1996 with several counts of forgery and theft, some of them
felonies.
She pleaded guilty in December 1998 to a misdemeanor theft charge and
was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $36,649 in
restitution.
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Another day another Republican scandal.
Harry
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