Larry Householder

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is listed as an inmate in at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center, after previously being held in the Butler County Jail.

The sentence was handed down after Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges were found guilty in a corruption trial back in March.

Householder, along with former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges, have been convicted in federal court of wrongdoing in connection with the House Bill 6 scandal.

Ohio law may be too weak to convict a corrupt public official, but federal prosecutors have a more powerful hammer.

The trial of former House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges showed ways in which powers were abused and oversight was absent.

Former US Attorney David DeVillers said comments from his successor made previously and then outside the courthouse in Cincinnati after the verdicts suggest the case continues.

The guilty verdict against former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges sparked reaction from politicians of both major parties.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges have been found guilty by a jury of corruption following a seven-week trial.

After seven weeks, jurors returned verdicts in the federal racketeering trial of Republican former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges.

Former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former FirstEnergy lobbyist and state party chair Matt Borges, both Republicans, are accused of playing roles in a $61 million bribery scheme to pass a billion-dollar bailout for two nuclear power plants.

Householder, the main defendant in the largest public corruption trial in Ohio history, could end up regretting taking the stand.

Federal prosecutors played phone calls and in-person meetings that were secretly recorded to act as evidence against Matt Borges in the $61 million bribery case.