The Coingate saga just got crazier. Tom's in state custody, but look what Bernadette is up to.

Remember Tom Noe of Coingate fame? He finished his federal time for illegal fundraising for Bush/Cheny and he was recently moved to state custody in Ohio for strealing from a state agency.But what is more interesting at the moment is what his wife is doing while she waits for her beloved to be released in about 18 years. A girl's gotta keep busy, and Bernadette Noe all those years to keep busy while hubby serves his term. Lucky for her she's resourceful and she found some interesting playmates:

(From The Blade:)

Since he arrived six weeks ago at the sprawling 5,000-square-foot house on the Atlantic owned by Ms. Noe — the wife of incarcerated rare-coin dealer and disgraced political insider Tom Noe — Daniel Gignac has made himself at home.

Photographs Gignac e-mailed to family back home in Michigan show him drinking Bud Light with Ms. Noe, chasing iguanas near the boat dock, and standing outside the Noe home. He tells his family back in Michigan that he's partaking in nightly bonfires by the ocean.

Daniel Gignac's brother, Anthony Gignac, 38, is a notorious con man who pretends to be a Saudi prince as he runs up bills at posh hotels, buys designer clothing and jewelry on ill-gotten credit cards, and convinces car dealers to sell him luxury automobiles.

The often-incarcerated Anthony Gignac — who used the alias Khaled Bin Al-Saud when he carried out schemes in places like Michigan, Florida, California, and Hawaii — is in federal prison in Atlanta serving a 5½ -year term for bank fraud and impersonating a foreign diplomat.


Much more here at The Blade:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081221/NEWS16/812210369

Corrupt republicons?

I am shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you.

Who could ever have imagined?

And how does ol' Tom feel when wifey tells him she's all caught up in the brothers' dramas, and taking sweet little trips to the amusement park with one of them.

The owner of the Halekulani Hotel says it is appealing a Honolulu jury's decision that it must pay $88,848 to a California couple who had been tricked into paying the hotel bill of a con artist posing as an Arabian prince.

The jury before Circuit Court Judge Collen K. Hirai last month found that the Halekulani Corp. committed negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in 1994 when it accepted payment from Gilbert and Irene Goetz of almost $21,000 for a bill owed by Anthony Gignac to the hotel.

At a party hosted by the Waikiki hotel, a Halekulani employee introduced the Goetzes to "Khalib Bin Al Haud", who claimed to be a Saudi Arabian prince, according to Steven Otaguro, the plaintiffs' attorney. The "prince" was actually Gignac, who has been convicted for fraud and theft in Florida and California.

Otaguro said the Goetzes agreed to pay the hotel bill of the "prince" until he could get cash from a safety deposit box on the mainland. The "prince" gave the couple jewelry, valued at $9,000, as a measure of good faith.

More here:

http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/06/13/business/story2.html