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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted adamantly denied knowledge of the largest bribery scheme in state history after we discovered text messages from FirstEnergy executives alleging he led the push for House Bill 6. He also seemed aggravated by our follow-up question asking how he was ignorant of the plot.
Both DeWine and Husted have continuously denied any involvement, and law enforcement has not accused either of wrongdoing. New texts show FirstEnergy allegedly working with Gov. DeWine to pass House Bill 6 RELATED: New texts show FirstEnergy allegedly working with Gov. DeWine to pass House Bill 6 On Friday, I discovered and reported on messages sent between Husted and FirstEnergy executives, in addition to a slew of texts and emails between FirstEnergy officials and lobbyists about Husted.
Along with McCarthy appearing continuously in the documents, so does John Kiani. Kiani was the executive chairman of FirstEnergy's subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions. "Just had long convo with JHusted just now. Senate President called John twice during our two calls and he called me back twice. All is well. JH is working on the 10 years," Dowling texted Jones in early July 2019."He's afraid it's going to end up being 8. Talk later."When the Senate was holding up H.B. 6's passage, Jones texted Householder."He’s not a legislator," Householder responded.
DeWine was seemingly purposely left somewhat in the dark about the bribe, according to notes from Randazzo's federal indictment. surprised when he does,” Dowling wrote about DeWine in a note for Jones. “Sometimes he knows what you’re talking about. Sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he does and pretends he doesn’t.”
"Remember the way the politics in Ohio are structured, really, the power of getting things done is in the General Assembly," the professor said."Sometimes muscle isn't a good leader."At an unrelated press conference Friday, I was able to ask Husted about the texts. "I wasn't involved in it. That was Larry Householder and there are no texts between me and him," he responded.Or, you're kept in the dark.
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