Testimony that Noe called Coin Funds an ATM + Friends would Bail him out

[mod mom]

Noe called coin funds an ATM, ex-aide says
Woman also says he thought friends would bail him out
By Mark Niquette
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, October 18, 2006


TOLEDO — Coin dealer Thomas W. Noe once described the $50 million state investment he managed "as having access to an ATM," Noe's former administrative assistant said yesterday in testimony against her former boss.

"What he went on to say was, when he needed it, he would tap the coin funds," Sue Bahn told the jury during the second day of testimony in the trial of Noe and his handling of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation coin investment.

Bahn, who worked for Noe for about two years at his Maumee coin shop and was trusted to pay his bills and balance his personal checkbook, said Noe made the comments in June 2005 after she questioned him about the controversy swirling around the investment at the time.

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Bahn testified that Noe would make deposits into his personal account to cover expenses that sometimes reached hundreds of thousands of dollars in a month. She said there was an "escalation" of spending in 2004, including a $50,000 pool for Noe's home in the Florida Keys and other big-ticket purchases.

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http://www.dispatch.com/?story=220170

[Hubert Flottz]

1. And the people who were hurt on the job, probably lost half of the

things they owned, waiting for worker's comp to kick in...

[mod mom]

2. Noe's ties to Lucas Co BOE + the 04 Election in OH (besides $ Laundering)

Let's not forget that both Tom Noe and his wife Bernadette were tied to the 2004 election in Ohio. Tom, as former Chair of the Lucas County BOE helped bring Diebold into Lucas County and during 2004, Bernadette Noe was Chair of the Lucas County(Toledo-Dem stronghold BOE (where 41% of November 2nd Provisional Ballots Axed in Lucas County in '04)

Blackwell's OH SOS Investigation of the Lucas County BOE in 2004 :

http://www.sos.state.oh.us:80/sos/ElectionsVoter/OhioElections.aspx?Section=1008

includes the fact that REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS were allowed UNSUPERVISED ACCESS to UNSECURED BALLOTS prior to the election, as well as this list:

*failure to maintain ballot security
*Inability to implement and maintain a trackable system for voter ballot reconciliation .
*failure to prepare and develop a plan for the processing of the voluminous amount of voter registration forms received.
*issuance and acceptance of incorrect absentee ballot forms.
*manipulation of the process involving the 3% recount.
*disjointed implementation of the Directive regarding the removal of Nader and Camejo from the ballot .
*failure to properly issue hospital ballots in accordance with statutory requirements.
*failure to maintain the security of poll books during the official canvass
*failure to examine campaign finance reports in a timely manner.
*failure to guard and protect public documents ....etc.


-One-half of the ballots printed and used in the 2004 general election in Lucas county were stored in an open space on the fhird floor of the county warehouse with no security measures in place.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation on Lucas County BOE page 4



-Live ballots were delivered to polling locations a week in advance of the election. Although the ballots were retrieved, one board employee who was assigned to the warehouse informed the SOS staff that he did not believe all the ballots were successfully retrieved.
SOURCE; SOS Investigation, page 5



-Lucas County BOE failed to record or retrieve ballot stub numbers of absentee voters’ ballots as required by statute OH Revised Code 3505.23. It was reported by an elector that her mother had received not one, but three absentee voter ballots. there was no way to determine if similar incidents occurred and if so how many.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, page 7




-October 4, 2004 was filing deadline for new voter registrations. At that point there were approximately 20,000 unprocessed voter registration applications with less than a month before the election. One mail tray containing 4,500-7,000 (estimates vary) unprocessed “Project Voter” registrations were discovered on or about October 18,2004.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 10

***Of interest here is information obtained from the SOS website entitled ElectionsVoter/results 2003 and 2004 which show the # of registered voters number change from ‘03-’04 was 11,947 in Lucas County: reg voters 2003 in Lucas=288,190 ; registered voter in 2004=300,137.



-In late September or early October an employee of the Ohio Republican Party contacted Sam Thurber (*involved with politician wife Maggie Thurber in Noe scandal.) wanting to inspect and have copies made of all recently returned voter registrations, Ohio Republican Party offered to furnish volunteers to assist with copying postcards. No one at the Lucas County BOE can confirm that anyone was assigned to supervise Republican volunteers. On their second day of copying, a BOE employee, Jennifer Bernath, Democratic Booth Official) saw republican party volunteers peeling off the yellow return stickers applied by the post office. (Violation of RC 149.43 (B) (I) , and agruably a violation of 149.351.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, pgs 18-19



-The Swanton 3 poll book turned up missing and has never been recovered.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 16

[acmavm]

3. And all of this is why I cannot stand John Kerry. He could have

held on more than a few hours to see how bad the illegalities were.

He just couldn't wait to get on with his life.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Team Kerry pissed me off too!

I'd have trouble voting for him again. I was so pissed and sick over the election in 2004, and so stressed out, that I almost let it kill me. I had two heart attacks not long after that mess in Ohio got under way.

[acmavm]

5. I had 8 mini strokes and two major strokes 01/20/05. They

started at 10:40 a.m. while on my computer posting on DU.

I sympathize and truly understand.

[mod mom]

6. I went around door to door in eastside Cols OH Af Am neighborhoods

promising (like they promised us) that this time things would be different and they would make sure every vote was counted. Maybe Kerry et al didn't feel it necessary to stand up for their voters who stood in line in the cold pouring rain for hours to caste a vote for him-but I certainly do:

before Nov 3rd-me-a happy go lucky part time dem activist/mom/small business owner
after Nov 3rd- me-angry election reform activist and election investigator/mom.

I too, would have a difficult time ever voting for Kerry.