Corrupt OH House Speaker at center of nuclear racketeering scandal is voted out

Larry Householder, the now former Speaker of the OH House, arrested July 21 for the biggest criminal racketeering scheme in the state's history, was stripped of the Speakership in a unanimous vote on July 30.

By a 90-vote in the Ohio House, Householder, who had refused to resign, was kicked out of a job he may have bought with bribes. Householder's hubris, even as it emerged that he had set up a 501(c)(4) that illegally funneled money likely from FirstEnergy, in order to secure his position and votes for a House bill that dished out $1.5 billion in nucleaer subsidies, was not rewarded on Thursday. However, Householder was not expelled from the Republican party, is running unopposed in the 2020 election and could simply return to the chamber in January.

It is not yet clear whether HB6, the bill which rewarded FirstEnergySolutions with subsidies to keep its financially failing and dangerously degraded Davis-Besse and Perry reactors operating, will be repealed. Read more.