FBI Special Agent Blane Wetzel has wrapped up his testimony in ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s corruption trial, leaving the witness stand on Friday after spending nine days under questioning.
from their cross-examination of Wetzel on Friday. The expensive campaign to make Householder speaker and pass HB6 was just Ohio politics as usual, per Householder’s attorneys.
“Gov’s chief of staff approved the use of state-owned airplane?” Dowling said. “Hmm. Mike Dawson’s wife? Boom.” FirstEnergy also directly lobbied Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Attorney General Dave Yost. All had various roles either in passing HB6 or interpreting whether the bill could be repealed by a rival campaign.
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