Brad Blog: Oh My Ohio (Special Prosecutor Now Requested for Coingate)

[AtLiberty]

OH MY OHIO: Bernadette Noe Said Complicit in Gaming 2004 Elections

Wife of Embattled GOP/Bush-Cheney Operative Embroiled in Gaming Ohio Balloting/Recount

'CoinGate' Scandal Grows, Special Prosecutor Now Requested

August 1, 2005
Brad Blog

We've been (mostly) quietly watching the situation in Ohio blow up in slow motion over the last several weeks/months. The "CoinGate" scandal there has been the touchstone of Campaign Finance/Money...

The "CoinGate" scandal there has been the touchstone of Campaign Finance/Money Laundering scandals which is spreading like a cancer across the entire state; from "Mr. Republican" Thomas Noe, who angled his way into mis-managing a $50 million piece of the State Workers Pension Plan via his own personal exceedingly risky investments in rare coins -- millions of dollars from which have now disappeared -- through the Republican Governor Taft's own office and even the Ohio Supreme Court itself, both of which are all now being implicated through the spidering tentacles of this extraordinary state-wide scandal.

But what is known so far appears to be just the tip of an incredibly rotten iceberg...

For full story, click:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001648.htm

[LimeCoke]

1. Worse and worse

The more I read and visit, the more I wonder what the hell has happened to my home county.