Noe knows: Money-laundering, organized crime and election theft

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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2014/2016

Bob Fitrakis

February 26, 2014

Convicted felon Tom Noe, former Lucas County (Toledo) Republican Party chairman, stole $13.7 million in the so-called “Coingate” scandal during the Voinovich and Taft administrations. Major daily newspapers in Ohio like the Toledo Blade and the Columbus Dispatch are finally getting around to pondering: Why has there been no investigation and final report from the Ohio Inspector General’s office on this important scandal?

A Blade editorial asks the key question: “What is the state trying to cover up?”

Let us explain it to them.

Why there’s no report on the Coingate scandal is because it intersects with money –laundering into a presidential campaign and Voinovich’s ties to organized crime.

Tom Noe was northwest Ohio's “Mr. Republican” and a close Bush/Rove crony. He served two years for illegal money laundering into the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign. He is now serving an 18-year term in state prison for stealing from the state’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC).

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1. And his wife Bernadette Noe was on the Lucus County (Toledo) BOE and she let ....

.... republican/bush & cheney workers work on the files of registered voters in the
county and many legal registered voters who had been voting for years showed up
on election day and could not vote or had to vote a provisional ballot which in most
cases was not counted.