The Ohio attorney general is urging a state court to resume his racketeering lawsuit over FirstEnergy’s $61 million bribery scheme after two political insiders were found guilty in a $900 million nuclear bailout corruption scandal.
The motion Thursday to lift the civil case’s pause is the latest fallout from the state’s largest public corruption scandal. A Cincinnati jury earlier on Thursday found former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former state GOP Chairman Matthew Borges guilty of the scheme—convictions which could set the tone for similar “dark money” bribery cases going forward.
FirstEnergy admitted to federal prosecutors that it bribed ...
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