Nuclear Bailout

Jurors are due back in a Cincinnati federal courtroom Tuesday for the resumption of the trial for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges.

The bribery trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been put on hold for the rest of the week after a juror fell ill with COVID.

The trial of former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges dwarfs previous public corruption trials Ohio. But there is nothing in state or federal campaign finance law to prevent that record from being broken.

An arm of FirstEnergy Corp. was “bleeding cash” as it explored options for the two aging nuclear plants eventually rescued by Ohio House legislation that federal prosecutors say former Speaker Larry Householder championed in exchange for corporate bribes, a utility executive testified Tuesday.

The two defendants both said they are optimistic about the trial and “relieved” that the wait is over to make their case.

Opening arguments in the trial of Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, and Matt Borges, former FirstEnergy lobbyist, are set to begin Monday.

The Ohio Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will take up a dispute over the freezing of $8 million in assets belonging to a former top utility regulator caught up in the sweeping Statehouse bribery scheme alleged by federal prosecutors.

Whether it was the November election, unconstitutional legislative maps or the fight over abortion rights, there were a lot of stories that kept on giving throughout 2022. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown sorts through the biggest political stories in Ohio this year.

A three-judge panel on the 10th District Court of Appeals ruled today that a Columbus judge improperly froze $8 million of assets of Sam Randazzo.

An outside law firm working with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on responses to federal subpoenas and public records requests has multiple ties to the law at the heart of the state’s ongoing nuclear bailout corruption scandal.