On a completely OOC level, I'm confused, what foreign nobles are you talking about? Minas Leon has had a bunch of ex-Ithilians join that have been banned by Raziel, but when we looked into it, we found no Tarans (as originally claimed by King Sidd) had joined Minas Leon. Are there really foreign nobles joining Minas Leon to bypass the treaty or not?
I wouldn't doubt the gold, though. That's almost a given.
Naw, thats propaganda. They did acquire a TON of new nobles though.