Coingate Scandal Grows

[brettdale]

Coingate Scandal Grows

http://www.conyersblog.us

Regular readers of this blog know that earlier this month I wrote to the U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio, asking him to explain how it was possible that he learned about a massive scandal involving the Ohio and national GOP before last November's election, yet managed to delay active pursuit until well after the election. This is the one where the Ohio Republicans invested tens of milliions of dollars in state pension money in rare coins sold by an Ohio GOP fundraiser, Tom Noe, who also is implicated in fundraising problems with just about every statewide Republican as well as the Bush campaign. Of course, the many of the coins were lost. No response yet from Mr. White.

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1. Can't expect answers to "have you stopped beating

your wife" questions.
Integrity is a word totally foreign to this culture of corruption.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Of course

I'm glad this story is getting coverage though. I do believe that it has to do somehow with the election. If one is uncovered it all will unfold. Call it a "gut" feeling.

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3. I do hope your guts have a reliability rating.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Personally it does

In the past whenever I didn't listen to my "intuition" or "gut" or whatever I was always kicking myself in the butt. So now days I at least pay attention. Especially to the strong feelings. This one is pretty strong.

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7. Way cool.

Post bookmarked for future reference.

[enigmatic]

5. The Blade is doing a great job on this

Something the WaPo should take heed of.

[aquart]

6. The coins were lost? Pull the other one.

I can't help but feel they were never bought...and the money went into Republican Party coffers.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. I've been following this story and apparently

what happened is the coins went "missing". It's believed they were turned to cash and used in the Bush/Cheney Ohio re-election campaign. If this turns out to be true I have read that it will be illgeit because of fraud money. Does anybody know if this is true? What would that mean?

[aquart]

9. Illegit is putting it mildly.

A dime of state money ending up with Bush/Cheney is illegal.