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Last week, Greg Weinman, the Mint’s senior counsel and ethics
official, told The Blade that the Treasury Department’s inspector
general had opened an investigation into Mr. Noe’s role as a member
and chairman of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a panel that
advises the Treasury secretary on themes and designs for coins and
congressional gold medals.

In May, 2003, the White House and House Speaker Dennis Hastert
recommended that Mr. Noe get a seat on the influential 11-member
committee. Treasury Secretary John Snow appointed Mr. Noe, less than
six months after the Toledo-area coin dealer expressed interest in
joining a Mint committee to Henrietta Fore, then director of the Mint.

“I have always had interest in getting more involved on the national
level,” Mr. Noe wrote to Ms. Fore.

Mr. Noe’s appointment and eventual chairmanship of the Citizens
Coinage Advisory Committee enabled him to expand his reach into the
federal government, according to more than 2,700 pages of e-mails and
other committee records released last week by the Mint to The Blade.
The newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the
public records in June, 2005.



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