Former Ohio Republican Party chair Mathew Borges, 51, of Bexley, Ohio, was sentenced in federal court Friday to 60 months in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy.
Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been sentenced to the maximum of 20 years in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy involving more than $60 million in bribes, as the Southern District of Ohio just announced on their Twitter account.
The first Chinese government intelligence officer ever to extradited to United States to stand trial sentenced today in Cincinnati. Yanjun Xu 20 years in prison. Xu targeted American aviation companies recruited employees travel to China and solicited proprietary information.
UPDATED: FirstEnergy charged federally, agrees to terms of deferred prosecution settlement Comment sought from Rep. Wilkin on HB 6 The Highland County Press House Bill 6, as previously reported, was co-sponsored by Republican Reps. Shane Wilkin, R-Hillsboro, and Jamie Callender, R-Lake County. The bill included a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear power plants operated at the time by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. According to the federal criminal complaint, a conspiracy to pass the bill had its roots on a flight FirstEnergy provided to former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, and his son to President Donald Trump’s January 2017 inauguration.