Ohio Coingate:Noes Moving to Florida/Democrats rip GOP for scandal

Property records indicate Noes plan move to Florida

Article published Saturday, May 28, 2005

By MIKE WILKINSON
BLADE STAFF WRITER

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050528/NEWS24/505280414

Amid all of the news centering on the coin shop in Maumee, it appears Tom and Bernadette Noe are moving to Florida.

Ottawa County records show they have sold their Catawba Island home, and Florida records show that Ms. Noe is now declaring that home as her official residence.

The Blade has previously reported that former state representative Lynn Olman has a pending offer on their Maumee condominium.

If the couple do in fact move to Florida, it will end more than two decades in northwest Ohio for Mr. Noe, where he built a business and a reputation as a political mover and shaker...


Democrats rip GOP for scandal

Article published Friday, May 27, 2005

By STEVE EDER
BLADE STAFF WRITER

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS24/505270405/0/NEWS12

COLUMBUS - Democrats called on Ohio GOP leaders yesterday to take responsibility for the rare-coin scandal and to rid Columbus of its "culture of corruption."

Maddened by the news of the missing millions in state-owned rare coins managed by Tom Noe, Ohio Democrats said the extent of the scandal they've dubbed "Coingate" is even worse than they initially feared.

They also called for Republicans to return contributions from Mr. Noe and appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate.

State Sen. Marc Dann, a Democrat from suburban Youngstown and one of the most vocal critics of the coin venture, said Republican leadership only took action once they were "shamed" by the actions of Mr. Noe, who has contributed thousands of dollars to their political campaigns...


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squalid Carribean-rim protectorate. Infuriating.

Don't forget the lax Florida Bankruptcy laws that let you pour assets into a house and shield it from bankruptcy court. This is no coincidence, I'm sure.

Paul
http://www.bringohiohome.com/
http://www.loseyforcongress.com/

it has been so extremely difficult to live here under dumb-ass repug Taft and his handlers it makes me want to move to Vermont. This guy is the biggest do-nothing, worthless, lame excuse for a governor and has a legislature to match his abject stupidity. Our state economy, once vibrant and strong has been in the toilet since Taft and the moneychangers took over. These guys are so bad that they can't even get graft and corruption right. I mean, good God, why didn't they just invest Workers Comp fund money in the pre-invasion Iraqi dinar? I am SOOO glad that we have Ken Blackwell to run for governor here so he can clean things up with 100% of the popular vote and an overwhelming mandate from the national rethuglicans to declare a state of emergency, martial law, secede from the union, suspend civil liberties and habeas corpus, invade Iran......

I agree 100% with you. When the dems were in control we had a rainy day fund worth millions as soon as the repugs take over it's gone, now maybe we know where it went,do you suppose? wonder how long the Toledo Blade can keep covering this story until some repub tries to buy it out?

Sorry for the apparent blogwhoring, but for those who want to see just how many Ohio GOP politicians Tom and Bernadette Noe actually bought, click on the link below. The list is staggering!

http://www.bringohiohome.com/2005/06/follow-money-tom-noe-edition.html

wish I had the patience to total all that. Bet it comes close to a quarter of a million.

$185,372.83

Jeb Bush...Shocking 'Coin Gate' Crimes and Murder
Published on 02 July 2005 | Source: TNC Staff Reporter FL

Florida Investigator Who Got Too Close to Florida "Coin Gate" Silenced by Jeb Bush's Gangsters

Story Unfolding

Room 132 at the Knight's Inn in Valdosta, Georgia. Florida Department of Transportation Investigator Ray Lemme had the goods on the Bushes. He paid with his life.

Lemme was anxious to meet his contact, driving a beeline direct route from Tallahassee using I-10, Rt. 221, and US 85, to Exit 16 intersection of I-75 and US 85 (Knights Inn, 2110 West Hill Ave., Valdosta, Georgia). The Knights Inn is fairly remote from I-75, surrounded by empty lots and woods with few potential witnesses in the vicinity.

Wayne Madsen

FLORIDA PANHANDLE, June 10, 2005 -- Experienced federal investigators, acting independently, have discovered a covert funding channel used by the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney campaigns and the administrations of Jeb Bush in Florida and Bob Taft in Ohio to illegally funnel foreign and other questionable money into Republican coffers.

Ever since the brutal death of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) investigator Ray Lemme in July 2003, the focus of investigators in Florida and Georgia has been on the political scandal Lemme was uncovering. After his official investigation of contract fraud, money laundering, illegal immigration, and election fraud was shut down on orders of Jeb Bush, Lemme continued to investigate the use of FDOT to launder cash for the Bush Brothers and their allies. Lemme's focus was on the use of the Florida turnpike system to launder cash for the Jeb and George W. Bush campaigns. It was an investigation that would ultimately lead to Lemme's body being discovered in a motel room bathtub in Valdosta, Georgia. A two-state police cover up of Lemme's death, threats directed at Florida and Georgia investigators, and a virtual media blackout indicates that the GOP administrations of Jeb Bush and Georgia's Sonny Perdue wanted the Lemme story to go away -- and fast.


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