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Ex-Ohio House Speaker & former Ohio GOP leader guilty in $61 million bribery scheme
Ex-Ohio House Speaker and former Ohio GOP leader found guilty in $61 million bribery scheme
7:03 am EST Mar. 10, 2023
https://apple.news/AqQ5JitjiS46xHZUKMSj4Ew
A federal jury found both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges guilty of racketeering conspiracy Thursday – a dramatic outcome in the biggest public corruption case in state history.*
The guilty verdict marks the end of Householder’s long political career in which he twice held the speaker’s gavel. He’ll be in the Ohio history books as the only speaker expelled from the Legislature and then convicted in a federal corruption case.*
Householder and Borges, who neither showed any emotion when the verdict was read aloud, face up to 20 years in prison. After a seven-week trial, jurors deliberated just nine hours over two days.
The case made it to federal court because of its sweeping scope: $61 million in bribe money paid by FirstEnergy Corp. via dark money groups to help Householder seize political power and in turn pass and defend a $1.3 billion bailout law known as House Bill 6.**
“This isn’t typical political activity, and they know it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Megan Painter said during closing statements at the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati. “Mr. Householder abused that (public) trust and Mr. Borges helped him do it.”*
After the verdict, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said that the case shows that even powerful state leaders will be held accountable. "You cannot sell the public trust. It is not for sale."
Ex-Ohio House Speaker and former Ohio GOP leader found guilty in $61 million bribery scheme
7:03 am EST Mar. 10, 2023
https://apple.news/AqQ5JitjiS46xHZUKMSj4Ew
A federal jury found both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges guilty of racketeering conspiracy Thursday – a dramatic outcome in the biggest public corruption case in state history.*
The guilty verdict marks the end of Householder’s long political career in which he twice held the speaker’s gavel. He’ll be in the Ohio history books as the only speaker expelled from the Legislature and then convicted in a federal corruption case.*
Householder and Borges, who neither showed any emotion when the verdict was read aloud, face up to 20 years in prison. After a seven-week trial, jurors deliberated just nine hours over two days.
The case made it to federal court because of its sweeping scope: $61 million in bribe money paid by FirstEnergy Corp. via dark money groups to help Householder seize political power and in turn pass and defend a $1.3 billion bailout law known as House Bill 6.**
“This isn’t typical political activity, and they know it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Megan Painter said during closing statements at the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati. “Mr. Householder abused that (public) trust and Mr. Borges helped him do it.”*
After the verdict, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said that the case shows that even powerful state leaders will be held accountable. "You cannot sell the public trust. It is not for sale."
