Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Coin-Gate has Bob Taft in denial.
The Toledo Blade in todays article outlines the efforts of "Governor Prison Stripes" to distance himself from Tom Noe and the Missing Millions.
In Gov. Bob Taft’s first public appearance since his criminal conviction on ethics violations, he refused yesterday to answer questions about his relationship with Tom Noe or recant statements he made last week that the Republican fund-raiser “ worked hard to conceal” his $50 million state-funded rare coin venture.This effort has drawn a sharp rebuke from Mr Noes attorney.
The failed investment is at the center of a scandal that has gripped the governor’s administration for the past five months, with 13 separate investigations launched to determine how millions went missing from the fund, and to investigate Mr. Noe’s gifts to the governor and top aides and charges that the former area coin dealer illegally laundered money to President Bush’s re-election campaign.
Mr. Noe’s attorney, William Wilkinson, as he did last week, said last night that the governor must correct his statement about the coin dealer’s “concealment” or his client will “help people to understand that it was incorrect.”Let the Games begin!
“The governor is, to my knowledge, the only person on the planet that has even suggested that Tom Noe concealed his association with the coin funds,” Mr. Wilkinson said. “I have been in contact with each of the 13 government agencies involved and nobody has ever raised such an implausible question.”
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