Happy New Year!
>>>> How about a little politics??
Dispatch:
An appeals court yesterday denied an appeal by jailed rare-coin dealer Thomas W. Noe to throw out his convictions stemming from a scandal that rocked state government in 2005.
The 6th District Court of Appeals denied several challenges brought by Noe's lawyers, including a claim that negative publicity in his home county, Lucas County, prevented him from getting a fair trial.
In 2006, Noe, a major Republican fundraiser and ally of then-Gov. Bob Taft, was convicted of one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, two counts of aggravated theft, four counts of money laundering, 18 counts of forgery and four counts of tampering with records....
It is amazing how the Dispatch didn't put the Noe story on the front page. They buried it inside.