JUST IN: A jury has found former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder guilty of the public corruption charges he faced.
CINCINNATI — A jury has found former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder guilty of the public corruption charges he faced.
Prosecutors accused ex-GOP chair turned lobbyist Borges and Householder both of being part of a complex scheme to funnel nearly $61 million in dark money from Akron-based First Energy Corp. and its subsidiary to elect Householder as speaker, solidify his power base, secure enough votes to pass a ratepayer-funded bailout of two nuclear plants and ensure it survived a ballot campaign to overturn it.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Megan Gaffney Painter had the last word in her rebuttal closing argument, urging jurors to convict because Householder and Borges had violated the public's trust and hidden their behavior through a purposely complex scheme. Jurors heard sprawling and sometimes repetitive closing arguments for more than six hours on Tuesday, as attorneys tried to summarize six weeks of testimony by more than 25 witnesses and involving hundreds of documents.
“The speakership in Ohio is a very powerful office, it has a rather comprehensive ability to schedule bills, to stop bills, to move pieces around the chessboard,” Niven said. “I think there’s been a sense that speakers could operate without limit, without any kind of parameters around them. This case is ultimately a test of that.”
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