Coingate - from the List of Republican Offenders - 1998

November 20, 2006

Republican Thomas
Noe, Bush-Cheney '04
campaign chair was
found guilty of 29 of 40
charges, including theft,
corrupt activity, money
laundering, forging
records and tampering
with documents.

He was convicted on the chief charge that he engaged in a
pattern of corruption in his management of Ohio's $50 million rare-
coin fund investment with the bureau. Police estimate he stole
over $2 million. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Noe is sentenced to 18 years in state prison

GOP fundraiser gets 18 years for embezzlement
Rare-coin dealer convicted of taking $2 million for loans,
Florida home

Here’s a good chronology of Noe

August 18, 2005

Ohio’s Republican Governor
Bob Taft pleaded no contest to
four first degree misdemeanors
by breaking state ethics laws by
failing to report golf outings and
other gifts. He was fined $4000
fine and had to make a public
apology.

Governor Pleads To Charges

August, 12, 2005

Republican Bernadette Noe,
Thomas Noe’s wife and election
board chairman, was convicted
for robbing the Ohio Bureau of
Workers Compensation Fund.

Wives found ways to share
wealth, coin records show
Petro says Noe's spouse
billed firm

March 31, 2006

Republican Brian Hicks, Chief of Staff to
Gov. Bob Taft, and his assistant,
Republican Cherie Carroll, was convicted
in the coingate scandal. Hicks was
indicted on April 22, 2005 on 24 felony
charges including securities fraud, mail
fraud, wire fraud and money laundering
for stealing over $1.7 million from over

600 investors from nearly 20 states and territories.

On November 14, 2005, he pleaded guilty and was ordered to
pay 2.3 million in restitution

On March 31, 2006 he was sentenced to 46 months imprisonment.

Brian Hicks Sentenced for Scheme to Defraud Hundreds of
Investors in Oregon and Throughout the United States

Pair guilty on ethics charge

March 31, 2006

Republican Cherie Carroll, Chief of Staff
Executive Secretary to Gov. Bob Taft was convicted
for accepting “free” meals valued at over $500 from
Tom Noe. She was fined $1,000.

Pair guilty on ethics charge