Justices Won’t Review Ex-Ohio House Speaker’s RICO Case (1)

The US Supreme Court said Monday that it wouldn’t review the criminal conviction of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, who’s serving 20 years for a racketeering conspiracy conviction tied to $60 million in bribes he accepted from FirstEnergy Corp.

The justices also declined to take up the case of former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matthew Borges, who lost at the same 2023 trial.

Householder (R) told the justices that they should revisit a decades-old decision on how specific evidence on an agreement to give something in exchange for favorable treatment or acts must be in corruption cases. Borges, ...