Article: Noe's lawyer says it was all legal.

Byline: Mark Niquette

Oct. 17--TOLEDO -- Jurors in the trial of coin dealer Thomas W. Noe were offered two different versions yesterday about what happened with the $50 million rare-coin investment that Noe managed for the state.

According to prosecutors in the first day of testimony, Noe cashed in on his Republican connections to secure funding from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation in 1998 -- and then promptly began stealing from it to pay bills and for other personal uses. Authorities say Noe also created bogus records to cover it up, even borrowing coins from other dealers to claim as state inventory in what prosecutor John J. Weglian called ...

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