DeWine’s Role in HB 6 Scandal Flagged as FirstEnergy Trial Starts

DeWine’s role in HB 6 scandal flagged as FirstEnergy trial starts

While I certainly can’t argue with Gov. Mike DeWine’s regret for signing the legislation for sports gambling, as reported in Thursday’s Plain Dealer (“Signing legislation to legalize sports gambling is something DeWine wishes he hadn’t done”), I can think of other actions and inactions of his -- some fairly blatant --which should trouble him more.Probably the top of my list of things DeWine should regret was his major contribution to the creatio…

FirstEnergy bribery trial arrives, prosecutors signal fresh evidence - Signal Cleveland

Fresh evidence in the FirstEnergy trial On a hot day in July 2020, during the Trump 1.0 summer of an emerging pandemic and turbulence of the post-George Floyd status quo, a flock of FBI agents showed up at a farm in Perry County and arrested Ohio’s sitting House speaker. They said Larry Householder took a $60 million bribe from FirstEnergy in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion nuclear bailout on the company’s behalf. The arrest of “Big Larry” a…