Anonymous ID: d620be March 9, 2023, 1:47 p.m. No.18475863   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5913

Former speaker of Ohio House convicted in public corruption trial

 

Larry Householder and a colleague face up to 20 years in prison and will be sentenced in the coming months.

 

The two each face up to 20 years in prison and will be sentenced in the coming months. Appeals could also be filed.

 

“As presented by the trial team, Larry Householder illegally sold the statehouse, and thus he ultimately betrayed the great people of Ohio he was elected to serve,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker said in a statement. “Matt Borges was a willing co-conspirator, who paid bribe money for insider information to assist Householder. Through its verdict today, the jury reaffirmed that the illegal acts committed by both men will not be tolerated and that they should be held accountable.”

 

The two men were convicted in the bribery and racketeering scheme that surrounded $61 million in bribes regarding House Bill 6, the state’s billion-dollar FirstEnergy nuclear power plant bailout.

 

Householder lost his speakership and was expelled from the House in June 2021.

 

As previously reported by The Center Square, FirstEnergy agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their investigation, admitting it conspired with public officials, others and entities to pay millions of dollars to public officials in exchange for specific official action to help FirstEnergy.

 

Householder, along with four co-conspirators, were charged in 2020. Also charged were Borges, lobbyist Neil Clark, the Oxley Group co-founder Juan Cespedes and strategist John Longstreth.

 

HB6 created a new Ohio Clean Air Program to support nuclear energy plants and some solar power facilities. Electricity consumers were to fund the program with the surcharge that ran through 2027.

 

The fee, which was scheduled to begin Jan. 1, 2021, was stopped by the Ohio Supreme Court in late December 2020. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost also reached a deal with FirstEnergy to stop what would have been a $120 million windfall for the company this year based on another part of HB6.

 

Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, said justice was served by the verdict.

 

“Justice was served today, and it now closes this chapter on Ohio’s largest corruption scandal in history," Russo said. "However, the issue of unlimited dark money and pay-to-play bribes being funneled through our political systems undoubtedly remains. We owe it to all Ohioans to rip these roots out permanently so taxpayers are never on the hook like this again, and so the government can regain the trust of the people.”

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/householder-borges-guilty-ohios-largest-public-corruption-trial

Anonymous ID: d620be March 9, 2023, 3:53 p.m. No.18476471   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6477 >>6590

Manhattan Prosecutors Signal Criminal Charges For Trump Likely in Stormy Daniels Hush Payment Case

 

As previously reported, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office revived its criminal investigation into Trump’s ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stephanie Clifford, AKA, Stormy Daniels.

 

Trump has been accused of paying Daniels ‘hush payments’ in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.

 

Trump has denied the affair.

 

House Democrats previously launched the inquiry into the hush payments ahead of the 2020 election cycle as a way to bog down Trump and slow down his 2020 re-election campaign.

 

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s predecessor previously rejected the Trump ‘hush payments’ case because it wouldn’t stand up in court.

 

Fast-forward a couple years and now the Manhattan DA has revived the Stormy Daniel hush payments probe to counter Trump’s 2024 White House bid.

 

According to the New York Times, the Manhattan DA began presenting evidence to a grand jury last earlier this year.

 

The former publisher of the National Enquirer was seen walking into the building in lower Manhattan where the grand jury was meeting last month.

 

Now this….

 

Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday signaled criminal charges for Trump are likely in the Stormy case, according to the New York Times.

 

Trump was told he can appear before the grand jury next week if he wants to testify, the New York Time reported, citing four sources.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/developing-manhattan-prosecutors-signal-criminal-charges-for-trump-likely-in-stormy-daniels-hush-payment-case/

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/developing-manhattan-prosecutors-signal-criminal-charges-for-trump-likely-in-stormy-daniels-hush-payment-case/

Anonymous ID: d620be March 9, 2023, 4:23 p.m. No.18476587   🗄️.is 🔗kun

FAUCI: "If there's anything that the Chinese are covering up, they're covering up the fact that they violated their own rules about getting wild animals from the forest or whatever — putting it into contact with humans — that was the real problem."

 

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1633978463643115520