A Republican fund-raiser who embezzled from a state investment in rare coins was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison for his role in a scandal that helped bring down Ohio’s ruling Republican Party. The fund-raiser, Tom Noe, 52, was also fined $139,000. Mr. Noe spent money as if he had “a bottomless cup of wealth and luxury” at his disposal, “when in fact it was at the state’s expense,” Judge Thomas Osowik of Common Pleas Court said Monday. The sentence is on top of the more than two years Mr. Noe was ordered to serve after pleading guilty earlier...
