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Biden administration in fraught position with some Trump-appointed US attorneys Distrust of Trump-era appointees led the Biden administration to appoint a career Justice Department official as acting attorney general while it waits for the US Senate to confirm Merrick Garland, the President’s nominee to lead the department. But dozens of top Trump-appointed prosecutors remain on the job while the new administration works to nominate its own appointees. For now, the department has told the Trump-appointed prosecutors they can stay, and it will be months before some of those jobs are filled w...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The new owners of two Ohio nuclear power plants have given indications they are no longer interested in receiving as much as $1 billion in subsidies handed out in a tainted...

1:10 The dark money nonprofit or 501(c)4 group Generation Now has pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge, admitting it was used to funnel tens of millions of dollars in bribes from the utility to Householder. Federal prosecutor David Devillers explained last summer the money helped Householder become speaker and pass the law that would authorize more than a billion dollars in subsidies for two nuclear plants formerly owned by FirstEnergy. “The codefendants in this case along with Larry Householder are all political advisers, lobbyists who all worked in different capacities. But make no m...

Statehouse News Bureau Rep. Larry Householder (R-Glenford) talked to reporters on September 1, 2020, after returning to the House for the first time since his July arrest in a $61 million bribery scheme. There’s another plea deal in the federal corruption case involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford), the former chair of the Ohio Republican Party and a utility widely believed to be FirstEnergy. That case has been called the largest bribery scandal in state history. The dark money nonprofit or 501(c)4 group Generation Now has pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge,...

Feb 4, 2021 In this Nov. 19 file photo, David M. DeVillers, U.S. Attorney for Southern District of Ohio, speaks at a news conference, in Kenwood, near Cincinnati. DeVillers, who was an appointee of former President Donald Trump, is leading an investigation into a $60 million bribery probe at the Ohio Statehouse involving racketeering charges against five individuals last summer, including former Republican House Speaker Larry Householder. He says his imminent departure from the office won't affect the case. (Albert Cesare/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File) COLUMBUS (AP) — The federal pro...