U.S. District Judge Timothy Black sentenced Borges one day after putting Householder behind bars for 20 years, the maximum allowable under federal law.
Former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges and his attorneys Todd Long and Karl Schneider, pictured here in January 2023 entering the federal courthouse in Cincinnati.CINCINNATI, Ohio — Former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison in connection with the Larry Householder-led political corruption scandal that engulfed state politics for years.
Borges, 51, worked as a lobbyist for FirstEnergy Solutions and alongside Householder — the former Ohio House Speaker who is now a federal prisoner — to scuttle opposition to a law that gave FirstEnergy a $1 billion bailout for two aging nuclear powerplants owned by a subsidiary of the Akron-based utility in exchange for $60 million in bribes.
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