(Ohio CoinGate) Coin-fund worker raised auditor’s suspicions

[UpInArms]

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/NEWS24/51020006

COLUMBUS — The same Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation internal auditor, whose questions about a rare-coin deal fell on deaf ears in 2000, had new concerns last year after a coin-fund employee was accused of misappropriating state money, e-mails released yesterday show.

But the bureau addressed the internal auditor’s concerns by defending how former coin-fund manager Tom Noe handled the situation. Mr. Noe has been accused by Attorney General Jim Petro of stealing millions of dollars from the failed $50 million investment he managed for the bureau.

Keith Elliott, the bureau’s chief internal auditor, on Sept. 21, 2004, sent an e-mail to the agency’s former chief investment officer, Jim McLean, and other bureau officials, asking for information about a note in the fund’s financial statement indicating that “management discovered an employee misappropriating assets” from the investment.

The questions centered around 119 coins costing about $93,000 that were missing from the fund’s Colorado office, according to financial reports.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Seems Ohio

is almost as corrupt as DC.

[WCGreen]

2. Well, we are the mother of presidents......

Eight of the worst, most corrupt presidents to take up residence on Pennsylvania Ave....

[Blue for Ohio]

3. Perhaps the political scene here *is* as bad as that in DC...

and it would be fantastic if the whole country would take a good hard look into the sham that Kenneth Blackwell tried to pass off as a 'fair & honest election' here in 2004.

EVERYBODY (IN AMERICA) should connect the dots between Diebold/ES&S/Blackwell/Taft/Coingate/Ney/the Ohio repub/Abramoff connection and the sleazy way the entire national repub party is run. It's all intertwined and it should be exposed RIGHT NOW (starting with Ohio) while the Bush administration is busy trying to cover their butts over the CIA leak.

Spread the word that Blackwell/Diebold wrote the book on 'how to strangle out legitimate votes'! It can't be allowed to ever happen again!!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml (summary of Conyer's report "What Went Wrong in Ohio")
http://truthout.org/Conyersreport.pdf (the full report "What Went Wrong in Ohio")
http://reformohionow.org (Reform Ohio Now!)

Thanks for listening.

Blue

[UpInArms]

4. Welcome to DU, Blue for Ohio!

Glad to have you here :hi:

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Thanks for posting

and BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

[mod mom]

6. Yes, welcome to DU. I hope you found your way to ER + D. BTW here is a

a little gathering you might be interested in:

Hello Voting Rights Activist,

It has been nearly a year since the November 2 election and a lot of
work has been accomplished to report to the world what happened here in
Ohio.
We would like to invite you to an event at the very same church where
we held the first public hearing in Columbus to expose the stolen
election:

"One Year Later - Voting Rights in Ohio"

Saturday, November 5, 1-4pm

New Faith Baptist Church, 955 Oak St., Off of Parsons near 18th

The event is free and open to the public. We will be showing some of
the videos that were produced about the Freedom Bus Ride and trip to
Washington, in which many local people  are all the stars! Bob Fitrakis
and Harvey Wasserman will speak about the events of the past year and
they will be signing their books about the stolen election. We will
discuss the upcoming election and the four election reforms on the
ballot.

And we will have a tribute to the Rev. Bill Moss.

Please, invite friends and family to the event!

Please RSVP to this email [e-mail]

[Blue for Ohio]

7. Thanks, but I don't know what ER + D is.

:shrug:

Also thanks for the invitation to the event in Columbus. I'm so glad it's taking place!

Alas, November 5th is my son's birthday and we're going to try to make it special for him; and unfortunately, he doesn't think going to a political gathering is much fun, even though he did (somewhat) enjoy our trek to see Kerry/Edwards in Bowling Green, OH last year. :bounce:

Is there an email list to join to get a summary of the event or other communications about it? If not, do you know if anyone is planning to post any kind of summary of the Columbus event here at DU? I can email [e-mail], but I thought I'd ask you first in case you know. :7

Thanks! :hi:

Blue

[mod mom]

8. Sorry I forgot we just had a name change. Under topic forums go to

election Reform. The forum used to be called Election Results + Discussion and used to be on the front page. It has a wealth of info on the Ohio theft.

[Blue for Ohio]

10. Thank you...

for the explanation and the directions to get to ER + D. I'll go check it out now. :)

Blue

[Debi]

9. I wonder why none of this got reported in September of 2004

Oh, yeah, didn't want to deal with 'background noise' during the elections..