Larry Householder, Former Ohio House Speaker Representative, was charged with a 20-year imprisonment sentence by federal jury for his involvement in a $60 million bribery scheme.
Former House of Representative Larry Household and Former Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges. (10TV)
Larry Householder was charged, along with Ex-Ohio GOP chair, Matt Borges for a bribery scheme from a nuclear power plants bailout bill in Ohio. Ex- Rep. Larry Householder and Ex- Chair Matt Borges allegedly received millions of dollars of industry funds intended for lobbying. Larry Householder was arrested and charged in March of 2020, for accepting bribes to pass a bill to bail out nuclear plants in Ohio.
The said bill Larry Householder passed in 2019 was nullified in 2021. After Larry Householder was arrested in 2020, he was ousted off his seat as a House speaker representative.
According to the Prosecutors, Larry Household’s political nonprofit organization, Generation Now, was given a total of $60 Million dollar bribe for lobbying. The scheme operated by Ex-Rep. Larry Householder is said to be the biggest corruption case in Ohio.
20 years and 5 years imprisonment sentence were charged to Larry Householder and Matt Borges, respectively.
FirstEnergy, the energy distributor company who paid Larry Householder and Matt Borges, paid the U.S government $230 million dollars as settlement.
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R odney
July 2, 2023 at 2:37 am
What a disgrace to Ohioans
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