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speaker householder what do you have to
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say to why don't you win not at this
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time
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speaker household are the allegations
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against you
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ohio house speaker larry householder
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says he will not resign
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on the same day of his arrest on bribery
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charges federal prosecutors say his
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arrest is just one piece of a
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complicated puzzle and that's what we're
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working to sort out for you
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thank you for joining us tonight at six
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i'm yolanda harris we're glad you're
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with us i'm tracy townsend we are
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talking big money here
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an alleged 60 million dollar bribery
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case connected to a
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taxpayer-funded bailout of nuclear power
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plants
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central ohio's news leader has team
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coverage for you tonight
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10 investigates bennett haberly is
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digging into this alleged criminal
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enterprise
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but we start with kevin landers tonight
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and what the u.s attorney announced
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kevin well good evening the u.s attorney
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says this is the largest bribery scheme
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ever perpetrated against the citizens of
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ohio if convicted
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larry householder could face 20 years in
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prison
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now among according to the u.s
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attorney's office householder is part of
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a 60 million dollar pay to play scheme
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investigators say money was funneled
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from an energy company into a charitable
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organization called generation now now
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because it was a 501
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c 4 it was not required to disclose who
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its donors were
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and was not subject to election laws and
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was never the attorney says used as a
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charity
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the u.s attorney called it dark money
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now the purpose of the scheme according
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to investigators was to ensure the
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passage
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of house bill six that bill was a
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billion dollar bailout by ohio taxpayers
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to save two nuclear power plants facing
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bankruptcy
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it worked until a tipster called the fbi
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and told them
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how it happened
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today's announcement comes with a
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warning
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from city council to the state house all
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forms of public corruption
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are unacceptable
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now according to the indictment it
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started this all this
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bribery scheme started back in march of
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2017 and it was then according to the
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indictment
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that householder began receiving
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quarterly payments of 250 thousand
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dollars
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reporting live from the state house
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kevin landers tv news thank you kevin
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now this all comes back to one word
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money chief investigative reporter
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bennett haverly
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is looking at where the cash flow
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allegedly starts
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and ends bennett
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yolanda federal prosecutors say that
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this 60 million dollars that was
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funneled from an energy company
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essentially
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became bribes money that not only helped
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secure the passage of house bill 6
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and helped a nuclear energy company but
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it also lined the pockets according to
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prosecutors
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of house speaker larry householder and
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his associates
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speaker householder what do you have to
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say to a while not at this time
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surrounded as he left the federal
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courthouse house speaker larry
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householder declined to say much
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after appearing in court tuesday on a
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federal racketeering charge
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this afternoon federal prosecutors laid
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out their case against him
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and four other men accused in taking
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part in a 60 million dollar bribery
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scheme
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according to prosecutors some of the
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money was used to help secure larry
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householder as house speaker
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and to help secure votes to pass house
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bill 6
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a 1 billion bailout that helped secure
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the future of two
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failing nuclear power plants in ohio run
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by first energy
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while the company was not named in the
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criminal complaint
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prosecutors noted that company a's
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entities
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paid householders enterprise 60 million
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dollars in secret payments
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over a three-year period in exchange for
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the billion-dollar bailout
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they took our manufacturing jobs they
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shuttered our factories
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now they're coming for our energy jobs
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prosecutors allege
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the money was concealed in a 501 c four
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a non-profit called generation now that
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has ties
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to householder and others generation now
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led the ad
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campaign to help secure the future of
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the nuclear power plants
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prosecutors said the millions paid into
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the entity
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were kin to bags of cash in a recorded
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conversation in 2019
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neil clark one of the lobbyists charged
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alongside
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householder said that generation now is
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the speaker c4
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and that company a's deep pockets and
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the money being sent to generation now
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was quote unlimited you have any
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response to the charges today
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clark declined to comment as he left the
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federal courthouse tuesday
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so did matt borges one of the other
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co-defendants charged
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prosecutors also alleged that the
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defendants paid themselves personally
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millions of dollars in company a bribe
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payments
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some of that money according to
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prosecutors was used by larry
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householder to help settle a personal
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lawsuit and also go to a payment for his
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florida home
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now no pleas today we're entered for
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neil clark larry householder matt borges
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juan cespedes or jeff longstreth those
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who were charged
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preliminary hearings set for august 6th
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all men are required to stay
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in the southern district of ohio they
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had to turn over their passports they
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had to turn over
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any firearms now we also reached out to
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first energy
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asking a company spokeswoman if the
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company was aware that this money was
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essentially going to be used
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to grease the tracks used as bribes she
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didn't have a comment to that question
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but said that the company
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received subpoenas today and that they
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plan to fully cooperate
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reporting live outside the federal
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courthouse bennett haberly 10 tv news
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thank you bennett governor dewine said
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this is a sad day for ohio
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he also wrote in a statement quote
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because of the nature of these charges
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it will be impossible for speaker
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householder to effectively
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lead the ohio house of representatives
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therefore i am calling on speaker
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householder to resign
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immediately
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