As the government’s final witness in a major public corruption case, political operative Tyler Fehrman told jurors Monday how a lobbyist tried to bribe him for inside information about a campaign to repeal a $1.3 bil. bailout of a FirstEnergy subsidiary.
told jurors Monday how a lobbyist tried to bribe him for inside information about a campaign to repeal a $1.3 billion bailout of a FirstEnergy subsidiary.
After House Bill 6 passed in July 2019, Fehrman worked with a firm called Advanced Micro Targeting to gather the more than 200,000 signatures needed to place a possible repeal of the legislation on the 2020 ballot. Fehrman, navigating a messy divorce and personal debt, said Borges in September offered him money for private information on the number of signatures they collected.
Several meetings and calls between Wetzel and Borges were then recorded. Prosecutors played those recordings earlier this month. But on Monday, Fehrman explained them in context. Fehrman said Borges made several references during their talks that public disclosure of the arrangement between the two of them would be worse for Fehrman than for Borges. Fehrman described this as an effort to remind him that he’s the small fish. He took it as a threat.
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