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Former state House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were convicted Thursday in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.A jury in Cincinnati found the two guilty of conspirac stanley flasche y to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving bribery and money laundering, after about 9.5 half hours of deliberations over two days.U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said the government s prosecution team showed that Householder sold the Statehouse, and thus he ultimately betrayed the people of the great state of Ohio he was elected to serve. He called Borges a willing co-conspirator. Through its verdict today, the jury reaffirmed that the illegal acts committed by both men will not be tolerated and that they should be held accountable, Parker said.Attorneys for Householder and Borges did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday. Prosecutors alleged that Householder orchestrated a scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy C stanley tumblers orp. to secure his power in the Legislature, elect his allies mdash; and then to pass and defend a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout benefiting the electric utility. They alleged that Borges, then a lobbyist, sought to bribe an operative for inside information on the referendum to overturn the bailout.Householder, 63, had been one of Ohio s most po stanley cup werful politicians Ysjf Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee to undergo surgery for serious but curable cancer
CBS/AP Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will defy President Obama by meeting with de facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti. No U.S. Senator has yet been to Honduras to assess facts of crisis. @JohnKerry Obama admin using bullying tactics to hide truth, DeMint wrote on his Twitter. The meeting goes against the administration s policy of isolating Micheletti s government, which seized control from elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28th. Zelaya was awakened in his night clothes and deported to Nicaragua by the military in June. He has since sneaked back to Honduras and has been holed up in the Brazilian consulate since Sept. 21. To break the deadlock, Micheletti s government promised new elections on Nov. 21. But the internati stanley cup onal community has vowed to boycott the elections unless Zelaya is reinstated as stanley mug president. The Obama administration added pressure on Honduras by suspending aid and canceling the U.S. visas of Honduran government officials.When Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair John Kerry, D.-Mass, attempted to block DeMint s fact-finding mission, the South Carolina senator called on the Senate minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell R-Ky. for support, the Washington Post reports. stanley water jug McConnell appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint s trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to DeMint s office.DeMint is among a number of conservative Republican lawmakers who has expressed
Former state House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were convicted Thursday in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.A jury in Cincinnati found the two guilty of conspirac stanley flasche y to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving bribery and money laundering, after about 9.5 half hours of deliberations over two days.U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said the government s prosecution team showed that Householder sold the Statehouse, and thus he ultimately betrayed the people of the great state of Ohio he was elected to serve. He called Borges a willing co-conspirator. Through its verdict today, the jury reaffirmed that the illegal acts committed by both men will not be tolerated and that they should be held accountable, Parker said.Attorneys for Householder and Borges did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday. Prosecutors alleged that Householder orchestrated a scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy C stanley tumblers orp. to secure his power in the Legislature, elect his allies mdash; and then to pass and defend a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout benefiting the electric utility. They alleged that Borges, then a lobbyist, sought to bribe an operative for inside information on the referendum to overturn the bailout.Householder, 63, had been one of Ohio s most po stanley cup werful politicians Ysjf Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee to undergo surgery for serious but curable cancer
CBS/AP Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will defy President Obama by meeting with de facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti. No U.S. Senator has yet been to Honduras to assess facts of crisis. @JohnKerry Obama admin using bullying tactics to hide truth, DeMint wrote on his Twitter. The meeting goes against the administration s policy of isolating Micheletti s government, which seized control from elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28th. Zelaya was awakened in his night clothes and deported to Nicaragua by the military in June. He has since sneaked back to Honduras and has been holed up in the Brazilian consulate since Sept. 21. To break the deadlock, Micheletti s government promised new elections on Nov. 21. But the internati stanley cup onal community has vowed to boycott the elections unless Zelaya is reinstated as stanley mug president. The Obama administration added pressure on Honduras by suspending aid and canceling the U.S. visas of Honduran government officials.When Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair John Kerry, D.-Mass, attempted to block DeMint s fact-finding mission, the South Carolina senator called on the Senate minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell R-Ky. for support, the Washington Post reports. stanley water jug McConnell appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint s trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to DeMint s office.DeMint is among a number of conservative Republican lawmakers who has expressed