Nuclear Bailout

The new CEO of one of the biggest utility companies in the country said it's ready to put the House Bill 6 corruption case in the past and focus on investments, and he has a suggestion for Ohio ratepayers dealing with soaring bills.

Lobbyist Matt Borges appealed his 5-year sentence late Wednesday in the $60 million bribery scheme that also took down former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder appealed his 20-year prison sentence Wednesday, nearly two weeks after he was convicted of masterminding the largest corruption scheme in state history.

Matt Borges' sentence came the day after U.S. District Judge Timothy Black sentenced former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to the maximum of 20 years in prison.

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.

Lawyers disagreed sharply in arguments before the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday over whether $8 million in assets belonging to the state's former top utility regulator should have been frozen after he was caught up in a sweeping Statehouse bribery investigation.

Several lawmakers wanted to propose more than two dozen amendments to the budget, but the vote in the end was overwhelming.

More than a dozen bills have been proposed to repeal all or the repeal of House Bill 6, which was stripped of its subsidies to Ohio’s nuclear plants in 2021.

Ohio law may be too weak to convict a corrupt public official, but federal prosecutors have a more powerful hammer.

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.