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Larry Householder, president of Ohio House, is among five local political insiders who were reportedly arrested on Tuesday in connection with a $ 60 million bribery scheme related to the state's new nuclear bailout law.

According to several media reports, FBI agents and local authorities stormed Glenford's farm at Householder Tuesday morning. Four other men were reportedly arrested alongside a house owner, who has led the Republican-controlled Ohio House since last January: Neil Clark, a lobbyist and founder of Grant Street Consultants; Former President of the Ohio Republican Party Matthew Borges; Juan Cespedes, co-founder of the Oxley Group in Columbus; And Geoffrey Longstreet and one of the House Advisers.

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A spokesman for David Devilliers, the US attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, confirmed to the Daily Beast that an Ohio State official and his "collaborators" had been charged with "a vulgar corruption plot involving $ 60 million", but that they would not go into details of the case before the press conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon .

An investigation into the Republican lawmaker focuses on the House 6 bill, a $ 1 billion bailout for Ohio's two nuclear power plants - which the homeowner helped significantly in the past year, according to Cleveland. The bill was signed by Governor Mike de Wayne in June and immediately met efforts to cancel the rescue plan.

These efforts have since failed after receiving fierce resistance from several well-funded groups, including Generation Now. The company is a 501 (c) (4) non-profit corporation - which means it can engage in political advocacy without disclosing its donors - but The Daily Beast has previously reported deep relationships with the homeowner.

Generation Now was one node in Columbus' political machine tied to bosses, which transferred money to state allies using millions of dollars in untraceable political donations. The group has pressed for state aid for two nuclear power plants run by FirstEnergy, an electric power struggling facility in Ohio. It also conducted the survey for Householder and his allies during the 2018 election cycle, according to notes quietly posted on an empty Generation Now website. Some of those notes contained metadata indicating that he was created by Longstreet, a longtime home advisor who was arrested on Tuesday, and another employee of his consulting firm.

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Generation Now made over $ 1 million during the 2018 session of a political group, Growth & Opportunity PAC, spent money to support a number of allies from homeowners. PAC has received another $ 1.1 million since last year from the dark group of funds of the same name, the Alliance for Growth and Opportunities. The PAC has once again spent that money on ads supporting Ohio's home allies.

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When the PAC began to grow and opportunities to display ads on a Cincinnati NBC subsidiary this year, the station unsuccessfully attempted to release information about the people who run the group. "I asked the buyer for additional names," the station wrote in a recording with the FCC. "None of them are provided."

Householder is the first Ohio lawmaker in 60 years to reclaim a spokesman after leaving due to time restrictions, which he did in 2019 after serving from 2001 to 2004. He is one of the three most powerful Ohio politicians who dictate his current influence how the state spends more than 140 billion Dollars a year, and Tuesday's investigation is not the first time that a homeowner has been subject to FBI investigations.

In 2004, the FBI launched an investigation into allegations that Householder and his aides received bribes from various sellers and exchanged political goodwill in exchange for campaign contributions. The investigation ended two years later, and no charges were brought against the Republican. About 13 years later, in January 2017, Householder launched a campaign to become the first lawmaker to recover a speaker - a job dictated by class boundaries - in nearly six decades.