Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder gets huge sentence for $60 million GOP bribery scheme....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
Former Ohio House of Representatives speaker Larry Householder Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinnewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. CINCINNATI, Ohio – Former Ohio House of Representatives speaker Larry Householder,convicted last year by a Cincinnati jury of their peers in what prosecutors say was a $60 million GOP bribery scheme involving House Bill 6, two nuclear power plants, and greedy right wing politicians and GOP businessmen, was sentenced to 20 years behind bars on Thursday. by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black, the maximum sentence available for his notorious crimes . His lawyers sought a lighter sentence while persecutors sought the maximum. Lat year, a federal jury in Cincinnati found the former state lawmaker and Matt Borges. a lobbyist and former chair of the Ohio Republican Party, guilty of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving bribery and money laundering in Ohio's largest e