Ohio House Speaker, Four Others, Indicted In Bribery Scheme Involving FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy identified as company providing money to 501(c)4, Generation Now, charged along with Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder [R] and four political allies
Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder [R] and four political allies, including the former chairman of the state Republican Party, were arrested and charged with accepting bribes from a company identified as nuclear energy provider FirstEnergy Corp.
The company and its affiliates paid more than $60 million to a 501(c)(4) entity called Generation Now that Householder, his aide Jeffrey Longstreth, lobbyist Neil Clark, lobbyist and former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matthew Borges and political consultant Juan Cespedes are alleged to have controlled. Generation Now was also charged as part of the prosecution.