This criminal will probably get some political appointment
Former #Ohio House Speaker #LarryHouseholder will ask President-elect Donald Trump to release him from a 20-year prison sentence, his attorney said.
Householder was convicted of participating in a $60 million pay-to-play scandal involving #Akron based #firstenergy The utility helped him return to power and in exchange, Householder gave FirstEnergy a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants
This is the rot that rules #Ohio, with TFG's tiny hand in the pocket
"#FirstEnergy gave heavily to Trump and Trump worked for a federal bailout"
"Former Ohio House Speaker #LarryHouseholder is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence as a consequence of his involvement, former state Republican Party Chair Matt Borges is serving five years and two others have pleaded guilty and await sentencing. Two others were charged and then died by suicide."
As it sought a massive, corrupt bailout in Ohio, FirstEnergy also spent lavishly on Trump-aligned dark money groups and at hotels and golf courses owned by the former president, a new report said this week, and Trump attempted to give them a federal bailout.
#ohio is also heavily gerrymandered....an oligarchy of grifting GOP. #larryhouseholder
NEW: Former Republican Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder indicted on 10 State Felony counts
Charges carry permanent ban From public office
The State Charges
One count of theft in office (F1)
Two counts of aggravated theft (F2)
One count of telecommunications fraud (F2)
One count of money laundering (F3)
Five counts of tampering with records (F3)
#USPol #OHPol #LarryHouseholder #FirstEnergy #HB6 #Ohio #News .
#Ohio + utilites = grift
#HB6 #SamRandazzo #FirstEnergy #MikeDeWine #LarryHouseholder
First Energy, a lobbying group that happens to also run power plants
SoCal Gas is the nation's largest utility, but (incredibly), it's not the dirtiest. That prize goes to #Ohio's #FirstEnergy, which handed $60m in ratepayer dollars to state politicians in illegal bribes in exchange for coal and nuclear subsidies and cancellation of state climate rules. That scandal led to #GOP speaker of the Ohio House #LarryHouseholder being sentenced to 20 years in prison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal
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