Via Columbus OH Dispatch:

Thomas W. Noe, the coin dealer and prominent Republican contributor whose $50 million state coin investment sparked one of the biggest scandals in Ohio state government history, was indicted today on 53 felonies, including theft of more than $1 million.
The charges include engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, 11 counts of theft, 11 of money laundering, 8 of tampering with records and 22 of forgery. He could be sentenced to a maximum 175 years in prison, although such a sentence is considered unlikely.

Dontcha just hate it when they try to downplay the sentence before the ink is hardly dry on the charges?

But this is one of the big ones. Read the story; there is a lot more money missing (we are talking many multiple millions) than can be accounted for either in known campaign donations or personal slop in the troughs of these hogs.

My bet? It went to pay for a lot of the '04 trial run of the "Prosperity Project", a term I suggest you Google on a regular basis.

(You thought the main under-the-radar Republican communications was run through Dominionist church channels? Yeah, that's one track, but this is the other, and probably bigger, one.)

Just don't let Mr. Noe out on bond for a hunting trip with Deadeye Dick, okay?