chairman of President Bush’s re-election efforts in northwest Ohio INDICTED

- toledoblade.com -:

"Within hours of gaining control of $25 million from the state of Ohio in 1998, Tom Noe began stealing it, according to a 53-count indictment unsealed yesterday.

He did not stop, the indictment states, until state officials shut down his coin funds last spring.

The indictment by a Lucas County grand jury alleges that Mr. Noe laundered and stole more than $3 million from the rare-coin investment funds he managed for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.
,,,

Mr. Noe, who was chairman of President Bush’s re-election efforts in northwest Ohio, gained the elite fund-raising status of Bush Pioneer for raising at least $100,000 for the re-election campaign.
....

U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican who was governor at the time the state began to invest in rare coins with Mr. Noe, also failed to return messages seeking comment. He appointed Mr. Noe to both the Bowling Green State University board of trustees and the Ohio Board of Regents.

"