Ex-Ohio House Speaker’s $60 Million RICO Conviction Upheld (1)

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, who’s serving 20 years for a racketeering conspiracy involving FirstEnergy Corp., won’t get another shot to try to prove his innocence at trial, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The three-judge panel also upheld the same conviction against former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matthew Borges, who’s serving five years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty at the same trial as Householder.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit panel said in its unsigned opinion that that there were no errors at trial that warranted the reversal of either man’s conviction. ...