Nuclear Bailout

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in a $60 million bribery scheme.

Ohio's nuclear bailout bribery scandal is shadowing Jon Husted this election year. The Republican senator has never been charged or accused of any crime, and he's said he wasn't aware of any criminal activity.

Closing arguments are approaching the halfway point in the trial of former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling in Akron.

Husted's testimony comes as he faces a hot-button retention bid this fall to keep the Senate seat to which he was appointed last year as a successor to JD Vance.

The state said Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling bribed the state’s top utility regulator Sam Randazzo. But the former execs’ lawyers said Randazzo was the criminal.

The state’s consumer advocacy group on utilities and Ohio’s manufacturers are asking the Public Utilities Commission to audit the subsidies paid to two coal-fired power plants in the last two years.

Former House Speaker Larry Householder, is serving 20 years in federal prison for masterminding the racketeering operation at the center of the scandal.

Democratic state lawmakers said Wednesday they are rolling out three bills targeting bribes and other forms of political corruption post-House Bill 6.

Subsidies for two coal-fired power plants that Ohio electric ratepayers have been paying since even before the scandal-tainted House Bill 6 will soon be gone.

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati Tuesday rejected appeals filed by former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges.