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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:01 PM Aug 2020

FBI: Multiple groups involved in Ohio $60M corruption scheme

CLEVELAND (AP) — A lengthy FBI agent affidavit detailing an alleged $60 million corruption scheme led by one of Ohio's most powerful elected officials provides painstaking detail about groups and individuals who played roles in spending mostly corporate cash.

Only one of those groups is specifically named: Generation Now, a purported slush fund controlled by since-ousted Republican House Speaker Larry Householder and his closest political adviser, Jeffrey Longstreth.

Householder, Longstreth, three other individuals and Generation Now were indicted on federal racketeering charges last week, the same day Householder's House colleagues removed him as speaker.

Prosecutors allege nearly all of the money spent to get Householder elected speaker, push a $1 billion corporate bailout through the Legislature and fund a dirty tricks campaign to kill an anti-bailout voter referendum touched Generation Now in some way.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fbi-multiple-groups-involved-ohio-210017765.html

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FBI: Multiple groups involved in Ohio $60M corruption scheme (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Can I translate the phrase "multiple groups" as "Republicans"? Midnight Writer Aug 2020 #1
How shocking to see Mitch McConnell's name mentioned. Tangentially, but still. 🙄 crickets Aug 2020 #2
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