The government alleges Householder used a secret arrangement with FirstEnergy to secure the speakership, elect legislative allies, pass the $1 billion bailout of two aging nuclear plants run by one of its subsidiaries and then run a dirty tricks campaign to keep it from being repealed. and FirstEnergy Solutions expected legislation in return,” Singer said. He received that money through a 501(c)(4) that was secret, it was undisclosed, it was unreported, and he received the money knowing that FirstEnergy Corp. “Larry Householder received almost $60 million from FirstEnergy bank accounts.
Attorney Matthew Singer delivered the government's closing arguments over more than two hours. District Court - in a gray suit and masked against COVID-19, hands crossed over his belly - as Assistant U.S.
Householder, 63, leaned back quietly in U.S. benefiting politically and personally from a pay-to-play scheme that, before his arrest, he had intended to carry well into the future. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Federal prosecutors told jurors as former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder 's corruption trial neared its close Tuesday that the Republican was “at the top” of a criminal conspiracy to pass nuclear bailout legislation in exchange for $60 million in bribes from Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.
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