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Former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former FirstEnergy lobbyist and state party chair Matt Borges, both Republicans, are accused of playing roles in a $61 million bribery scheme to pass a billion-dollar bailout for two nuclear power plants.
Former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former FirstEnergy lobbyist and state party chair Matt Borges, both Republicans, are accused of playing roles in a $61 million bribery scheme to pass a billion-dollar bailout for two nuclear power plants.
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press
Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the largest bribery scandal in Ohio history, a scheme to sell the statehouse for a controversial $1.3 billion nuclear and coal bailout law.
Lobbyist Juan Cespedes testified Larry Householder accepted bribes from a FirstEnergy subsidiary in exchange for bailing out Ohio's two nuclear power plants.