Ohio House of Representatives image of Larry Householder.
Larry Householder, the former Ohio speaker of the House, has been convicted on corruption charges related to a bribery scheme.
A jury found the Republican former legislator guilty of orchestrating a scheme that traded nearly $61 million in donations from FirstEnergy in exchange for legislation that provided a $1.3 billion bailout for two nuclear plants in Ohio and funded efforts to block a ballot initiative to block it.
The jury also found former Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges guilty of participating in the criminal scheme and paying a bribe to get insider information from the referendum campaign.
