The FBI is raiding the farm of the sitting speaker of the Ohio House, Larry Householder https://daytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news-fbi-agents-are-at-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householders-farm/JCKHFEK4ZFH5HJF5O4MCP3BY2M/…

It’s investigating $60MM in corruption connected to Ohio’s bailout of its coal & nuclear plants, the Toledo Blade reports: https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2020/07/21/FBI-launches-raids-related-to-nuclear-bailout-law-source-says/stories/20200721079
$60 million corruption and racketeering scheme alleged

COLUMBUS —The FBI began rounding up public officials and others Tuesday morning in relation to a $60 million public corruption and racketeering scheme ...

https://daytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news-fbi-agents-are-at-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householders-farm/JCKHFEK4ZFH5HJF5O4MCP3BY2M/
Ohio’s “nuclear bailout”—now reportedly the subject of an FBI probe—was much more than a nuke subsidy. It charged Ohioans $18/yr to subsidize two coal plants and it gutted renewable & efficiency mandates. @drvox called it the century’s worst energy law: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/27/8910804/ohio-gop-nuclear-coal-plants-renewables-efficiency-hb6
Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century

A corrupt bailout for dinosaur power plants that screws renewable energy in the process.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/27/8910804/ohio-gop-nuclear-coal-plants-renewables-efficiency-hb6
Struggling to articulate how nuts this case is. The FBI alleges that FirstEnergy—a Fortune 500 electric utility with 6 million customers—paid $60 MILLION in DIRECT bribes to the sitting Speaker of the Ohio House and his friends. https://www.scribd.com/document/469930706/Criminal-Complaint#from_embed
Criminal Complaint

Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others July 21, 2020, in connection with a $60 million bribery case.

https://www.scribd.com/document/469930706/Criminal-Complaint#from_embed
We are talking literal $250,000 quarterly payments to the speaker’s bank account and alleged co-conspirants saying the bribes were ‘unlimited’ ‘monopoly money’
We are talking literal $250,000 quarterly payments to the speaker’s bank account and alleged co-conspirants saying the bribes were ‘unlimited’ ‘monopoly money’
We are talking literal $250,000 quarterly payments to the speaker’s bank account and alleged co-conspirants saying the bribes were ‘unlimited’ ‘monopoly money’
At least they followed the Stringer Bell rule? https://twitter.com/DavidPomerantz/status/1285672437242372096?s=20
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