Noe rebuked for conflict in UT deal (Toledo Blade)

[tsuki]

'IMPROPER INFLUENCE' ALLEGED
Noe rebuked for conflict in UT deal
As a regent, he invested in professors' company

By MIKE WILKINSON
and JAMES DREW
BLADE STAFF WRITERS


Last June, Tom Noe and Pete Silverman wanted to talk about some important business with Rob Sheehan, a senior vice provost at the University of Toledo.

The topic was Hi-Genomics, a high-tech agricultural start-up firm at the university that was founded by Professor Stephen Goldman, a friend of both men.

Over lunch at the exclusive Inverness Club, they made their pitch to Mr. Sheehan. Hi-Genomics’s university scientists had developed a new technology and they wanted a licensing agreement for it.

Aware that it took months of contentious negotiations to develop an existing license, Mr. Silverman asked Mr. Sheehan to expedite the request.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/NEWS24/506130362

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Noe "rebuked," well ain't that nice. How about Noe investigated by more than a newspaper?

[LightningFlash]

1. Thomas Noe is under investigation by the F.B.I.....

Lets hope that this whole half of the F.B.I. does their job and blows this even wider open than ever before. A scientist and universities?? Unbelievable....I wonder what kind of 'software' they liked.

[mod mom]

3. Yes but is the FBI just another arm of the bfee? nt

[Bozita]

2. This is good old-fashioned investigative journalism.

They still do that at the Toledo Blade.

Thanks, Tsuki.

[roseBudd]

4. Knight-Ridder owned papers have been better than most of the rest

Knight-Ridder papers were critical of the Iraq claims pre-invasion

[Supersedeas]

5. yep...not much of that round these parts anymore - nostalgic really