Larry Householder

Immediately after U.S. District Judge Timothy Black sentenced Larry Householder to 20 years in prison, the Republican former Ohio House speaker was handcuffed and led from the courtroom.

The sentence was handed down after Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges were found guilty in a corruption trial back in March.

Householder, along with former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges, have been convicted in federal court of wrongdoing in connection with the House Bill 6 scandal.

Gov. Mike DeWine, who signed into law the nuclear power plant bailout at the center of the case involving former speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges, said the subsidies for coal-fired plants in that law should be repealed.

The trial of former House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges showed ways in which powers were abused and oversight was absent.

Former US Attorney David DeVillers said comments from his successor made previously and then outside the courthouse in Cincinnati after the verdicts suggest the case continues.

The conclusion of the House Bill 6 corruption trial tops this week’s topics on the Reporters Roundtable.

The guilty verdict against former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges sparked reaction from politicians of both major parties.

After listening to seven weeks of testimony, jurors returned verdicts in the federal racketeering trial of Republican former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio GOP Chair Matt Borges.

Former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former FirstEnergy lobbyist and state party chair Matt Borges, both Republicans, are accused of playing roles in a $61 million bribery scheme to pass a billion-dollar bailout for two nuclear power plants.