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Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and 4 others arrested in $60 million bribery case

Bubba Jr.

Updated on: July 21, 2020 / 4:00 PM / CBS/AP

The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates were arrested Tuesday in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio's two nuclear power plants. Hours after FBI agents raided Speaker Larry Householder's farm, U.S. Attorney David DeVillers described the ploy as "likely the largest bribery scheme ever perpetrated against the state of Ohio."

Householder was one of the driving forces behind the nuclear plants' financial rescue, which added a new fee to every electricity bill in the state and directed over $150 million a year through 2026 to the plants near Cleveland and Toledo. After Householder's arrest, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called on him to resign.


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  • Grasshopper
    Madigan here in Illinois is next and possibly JB Prickster the governor, both known crooks for decades.
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  • Butchdog2
    Amazes me that Politicians can get elected to office and don't even have a pot to pee in then after a few years they are millionaires.
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  • bpost
    We need the DEATH penalty for this type of corruption.
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