Larry Householder

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

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.

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

Former FirstEnergy Solutions lobbyist Juan Cespedes spent a second day on the stand in federal court, telling jurors of former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges' involvement in the House Bill 6 corruption case.

The trial of Larry Householder and Matt Borges is going into the fourth week and the prosecution is preparing to move on to other witnesses in the case.

It now seems likely that the trial, which was originally scheduled to take four to six weeks, may stretch into mid-March.

The prosecution walked the jury through how Larry Householder became the Ohio House speaker and how House Bill 6 — a nuclear power plant bailout — passed through the Ohio General Assembly.

The bribery trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been put on hold for the rest of the week after a juror fell ill with COVID.

The trial of former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges dwarfs previous public corruption trials Ohio. But there is nothing in state or federal campaign finance law to prevent that record from being broken.

The two defendants both said they are optimistic about the trial and "relieved" that the wait is over to make their case.