The Billion Dollar Bailout

[Mark Kindt]

Here Is The FBI Affidavit

Trust me, this is the most amazing FBI document you are ever likely to read.

High-handed corporate funding used to bribe the Speaker of the Ohio House. Yes, $59,000,000+ to a dark money non-profit to achieve a corporate bail-out of epic proportion.

[Dan Alaimo]

Good to see the connection and the follow-up.
Thanks, Mark

[Mark Kindt]

Here Is The FBI Affidavit

Trust me, this is the most amazing FBI document you are ever likely to read.

High-handed corporate funding used to bribe the Speaker of the Ohio House. Yes, $59,000,000+ to a dark money non-profit to achieve a corporate bail-out of epic proportion.

Perhaps even more disturbing to me is the fact that we are relying on corporations capable of conducting a massive bribery scheme to manage northern Ohio's nuclear energy plants and the radioactive wastes that the federal government pays to have them store on these power plant sites.

[Stan Austin]

Part of my reaction to this incident is influenced by my involvement in local campaigns where the dollar figures are in the hundreds. Past statewide campaigns that I have been part of also had fairly large dollar amounts but the expenditures were understandable.
But--- $60 MILLION DOLLARS????

[mjkuhns]

I will weigh in here because I think it's extremely challenging for people to conceive the scale of this corruption.

This was a billion-dollar-plus scam.

The $60 million which Householder is charged with moving, illegally, is just a fraction of the larger corrupt picture. Of course it is: Sixty million dollars were not being funneled, illegally no less, into the notorious sinkhole of political campaign spending except as part of the very intentional pursuit of a much larger sum of money.

To underscore this point with an example, Larry Householder spent half a million dollars (of apparently illegal money) to run late negative ads in one Statehouse race, alone. This was just one race among the 2018 elections which included well over 100 races for state government offices.

This corruption scandal alone--the Householder/FirstEnergy/HB6 corruption scandal as opposed to e.g. ECOT or payday lending or any other Ohio corruption scandal--involved more than a billion dollars of corruptly diverted funds.

I think it's natural enough to put this out of mind because the numbers are too big, or the implications are too terrible. But, as they say, don't look away.