**Breaking news** Householder, Borges found GUILTY in $60 mil bribery scheme

[Diamond_Dog]

YES!!!

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/03/guilty-former-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householder-ex-ohio-gop-chairman-matt-borges-convicted-in-60m-bribery-scheme.html

CINCINNATI – A jury convicted ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges of taking part in a bribery scheme prosecutors say was engineered to pass a $1.3 billion bailout of two nuclear power plants owned by a subsidiary of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.

Federal prosecutors in July 2020 accused Householder, 63, a Republican who was then one of the most powerful politicians in state government, of secretly controlling Generation Now, a nonprofit that received $60 million from FirstEnergy.

Generation Now spent that money engineering Householder’s rise to power, passing legislation that charges ratepayers to bail out the plants, and thwarting an attempt to repeal the bill. About $514,000 from Generation Now also paid down Householder’s legal debts, credit card bills, and repairs to his Florida home, according to bank records shown at trial.

Since the case first became public nearly three years ago, prosecutors have said it represented the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history, a cash-for-legislation scam they said personally enriched five people and aided a utility’s struggling nuclear operation on the backs of taxpayers.

[irisblue]

1. Wow!

[Sneederbunk]

2. Householder to the Big House.

[irisblue]

4. Rich arrogant f-er will not like the food I bet

[Sneederbunk]

5. It will be Club Fed for this prick.

He is "special." Will probably eat better than you or I.

[multigraincracker]

3. Anyone from FirstEnergy

going to jail? They need $million in fines for the bribes.

[hibbing]

6. Is party identification really needed here? n/t

[Lettuce Be]

9. Yes, it is. It goes to character

[hibbing]

13. I just meant it as obvious n/t

[VGNonly]

7. This happened in my locale,

Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant. Let him FRY!!!

[Botany]

8. And still Ohio will vote for the Republicans

I wonder how much of the 60 million made it to Mike Devine? Ohio is way fucking dirty.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. I don't trust DeWine as far as I could throw him.

No way he didn’t know anything about this. His lil’ol’ grandpa act doesn’t fool anyone anymore.

[Botany]

11. Just like he was unaware of the Charter School scams

He let shit heads with guns run a very good person in
from her job as director of health in Ohio because, "Masks were communism" and science was real.

Ohio sucks.

[patphil]

12. The largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history!

Apparently he just wanted a bigger house to live in.
Now he'll get free room and board, still at Ohio taxpayer expense though.

[Maeve]

14. Glad to hear justice does win once in a while

But, being in Ohio, I find myself thinking about stopped clocks and all that...

Will take a win anytime we can get one, tho!