Noe Invested Ohio's Money In Gambling Firm

[OzarkDem]

COLUMBUS — Tom Noe used state money to try to pump up an online gambling company in which he and other prominent Republicans were investors, records show.

Mr. Noe invested at least $100,000 of the state’s rare-coin money into financially troubled Games Inc., which has plummeted in value in the last year as its CEO Roger Ach II, a politically connected Cincinnati businessman, sought public contracts.

Mr. Noe is among several prominent Republicans who have invested in Games Inc.

Brian Hicks, former chief of staff to Gov. Bob Taft; Bob Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party; former Senate President Stanley Aronoff, and Lucas County Republicans Patrick Kriner and Sally Perz all own shares in the company, records filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show.

Jerry Springer, a Democrat from Cincinnati and a talk show host, is also listed as an investor.


http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050727/NEWS24/50727008

[SpiralHawk]

1. And were Jack Abramhoff, and his pal Tom Delay, involved in this

gambling spree as well?

Republican family values in action.

[tanyev]

2. Whew! Good thing Bill Bennett exempted gambling

in his book of virtues. IOKIYAR.

[KoKo]

3. I wondered who the two Bennett brothers mentioned in this article are..

Article says they move in Republican circles...hmmmmm....

[damntexdem]

4. He should have tried a better investment scheme:

like a roulette wheel at the nearest casino. ;-)

[librechik]

5. OH election official gave money to the mob?

so why stop there?

a criminal will be open to other criminal opportunities to advance himself and his cronies. No doubt it was just a short step to fixing the 2004 election for ShrubCo