For weeks, jurors have heard testimony about how former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder benefitted politically & personally from secret spending from FirstEnergy Corp. On Thursday, they heard from a woman who felt the wrath of that political spending.
On Thursday, they heard from a woman who felt the wrath of that political spending.
Beth Ellis, who referred to herself as “just a farmer’s wife,” ran as a Republican for the Ohio House in 2018 for a district covering Clinton, Highland, and Pike counties. She lost to Shane Wilkin, a Householder-backed Republican who would sponsor legislation that FirstEnergy admitted in court documents it bribed Householder to help pass.
Householder and others are accused of secretly controlling a nonprofit called Generation Now that accepted $60 million from FirstEnergy. It spent the money engineering his ascendance to the House speaker’s office and passing HB6, which was worth more than $1.3 billion to the company.
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