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![A group of people holding signs calling for punishing FirstEnergy march on the sidewalk near the Statehouse.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/snbfirstenergy-e1717267891486-900x422.jpg)
Activists ask Ohio’s attorney general to scrap FirstEnergy’s business license over HB 6 scandal
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A coalition of environmental, good government and community activists are making a request of Ohio’s attorney general that has little hope of success: get… Read More
![Former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chair Sam Randazzo leaves federal court in Cincinnati accompanied by his wife on Dec. 4, 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/npr.brightspotcdn-2-e1712701030258-900x422.webp)
The 911 call requesting a wellness check for Sam Randazzo that led to his body being found has been released
By: Renee Fox | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — A 911 call released by Columbus police reveals more details about how the body of Sam Randazzo was discovered Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the Franklin… Read More
![Republican former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder leaves the federal courthouse in Cincinnati with his lawyer Steven Bradley](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/download-4-e1678721240605-900x422.webp)
Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery
By: Jared Clayton Brown | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to spend 20 years in prison on Thursday for bribery. The judge gave Householder the maximum sentence… Read More
![Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, center, walks into Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse with his attorneys, Mark Marein, left, and Steven Bradley, right, before jury selection in his federal trial](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AP23020496296093-e1675202142653-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s former House speaker and ex-Ohio Republican Party chair have been convicted in their federal racketeering trial
By: Karen Kasler | Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges have been convicted in a federal court in Cincinnati. The two… Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart U.S. Court House in Cincinnati on Jan. 23, 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/download-e1675451613955-900x422.webp)
Jurors hear final statements in the Householder bribery trial
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Federal prosecutors told jurors as former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder‘s corruption trial neared its close Tuesday that the Republican was “at the top” of a criminal… Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart United States Court House in Cincinnati with three other people](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-2-1-e1674503323293-900x422.webp)
The defense rests in the federal racketeering trial of former Ohio House speaker and ex-Ohio GOP chair
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder spent a second day on the stand before his defense rested their case in his federal racketeering trial…. Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart U.S. Court House in Cincinnati on Jan. 23, 2023.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/download-e1675451613955-900x422.webp)
Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is expected to take the stand as his defense prepares to rest
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (Statehouse News Bureau) — Defense attorneys in the federal racketeering trial of Republican former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges started their case on… Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart United States Court House in Cincinnati with three other people](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-2-1-e1674503323293-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s Ex-House speaker is ill. His corruption trial pauses after a big week
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The racketeering trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges was cancelled due to illness again Friday, giving jurors a long holiday weekend to mull… Read More
![Amy Sutherly gathers signatures to put a referendum of HB6 on the 2020 November ballot. She has a brace around her wrist saying she sustained the injury after a counter petitioner hit her.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/download-2-2-e1675954568391-900x422.webp)
An FBI witness says FirstEnergy paid private investigators to follow anti-bailout petitioners
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (Statehouse News Bureau) — The investigation into a $61 million bribery scheme revealed that FirstEnergy paid for private investigators to follow petitioners who were trying to gather enough signatures… Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart United States Court House in Cincinnati with three other people](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-2-1-e1674503323293-900x422.webp)
Recorded phone calls and hidden camera footage featured in trial of Householder and Borges
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Footage from a hidden camera and audio from recorded phone conversations were played in the federal courtroom on Monday during the trial of Larry… Read More
![Larry Householder, former Ohio House speaker, walks into the Potter Stewart United States Court House in Cincinnati with three other people](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/download-2-1-e1674503323293-900x422.webp)
Householder, Borges trial focuses on documents connecting FirstEnergy to Generation Now
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (Statehouse News Bureau) — Dozens of documents and phone recordings were displayed and played in the trial against Republican former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former FirstEnergy lobbyist… Read More
![Rep. Larry Householder (R-Glenford) speaks to reporters before session on September 1. It was the first time he was back in the House since being stripped of his speakership in July.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/householder_gaggle_1-e1598995328350-900x422.jpg)
A juror’s COVID diagnosis halts Householder’s corruption trial
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The corruption trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was temporarily paused Wednesday after a juror tested positive for COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Timothy Black… Read More
![FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP20274726027008-scaled-e1601557459669-900x422.jpg)
A FirstEnergy Corp. executive testifies the utility bled cash before alleged Ohio speaker bribes
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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CINCINNATI (AP) — An arm of FirstEnergy Corp. was “bleeding cash” as it explored options for the two aging nuclear plants eventually rescued by Ohio House legislation that federal prosecutors say former… Read More
![Rep. Larry Householder (R-Glenford) speaks to reporters before session on September 1. It was the first time he was back in the House since being stripped of his speakership in July.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/householder_gaggle_1-e1598995328350-900x422.jpg)
Ohio House ex-speaker’s trial in $60M bribery probe is set to begin
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder goes on trial next week in the highest-profile reckoning yet to arise from a $60 million federal bribery investigation that federal prosecutors call the… Read More
![FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant, located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, shut down in November 2019.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_0115-scaled-1-e1595870817928-900x422.jpg)
Franklin County Judge Blocks Nuclear Bailout Fees From Kicking In
By: Paige Pfleger | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — A Franklin County judge has granted a preliminary injuction that blocks the owner of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants from collecting fees as part of HB6,… Read More