Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others Tuesday as part of a $60 million racketeering and bribery investigation.
and four others Tuesday as part of a $60 million racketeering and bribery investigation that prosecutors describe as one of the largest public corruption cases in Ohio history.
DeVillers said the arrests Tuesday will not end the investigation and that agents will continue to interview potential witnesses and execute search warrants in the coming days and weeks."We're not done with this case," he said."There are a lot of federal agents knocking on a lot of doors." Householder and the other four men made their initial appearance electronically in federal court early Tuesday afternoon. They were released from custody afterward, with travel restrictions and prohibitions on contact with others involved in the case.
The fight to approve the money was long and costly, extending even after the bill was signed into law. An effort to overturn the bailout ultimately failed after it met fierce resistance from well-funded competition. One group was Generation Now, a 501"dark money" operation that was not required to disclose donors under federal law. The group hired blockers to stall signature collectors working for those opposed to the bailout.
The investigation included dinners and meetings between undercover federal agents and Householder and Clark, during which, prosecutors say, the men made incriminating statements about illegal activity and bribes. The activities took place from March 2017 through earlier this year, federal officials said, with quarterly payments of $250,000 from related energy companies deposited into the bank account of Generation Now.
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