{"id":343,"date":"2023-04-05T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:35:01","slug":"transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency is Key\u2014Householder Trial Transcripts"},"template":"","class_list":["post-343","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":153,"authors":null,"related_issues":[92,423],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"In March 2023, both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former chair of the Ohio Republican Party Matt Borges were found guilty of scheming against the people of Ohio in a racketeering conspiracy.\r\n\r\nWitnesses and court documents reveal how the \u201cHouseholder Enterprise\u2019\u2019 worked. They demonstrate how money from FirstEnergy was funneled using nonprofits that were shielded from public scrutiny. The purpose of these \u201cdark money groups\u201d was to build and cement Larry Householder\u2019s political power, score the bailout of failing nuclear plants for FirstEnergy (House Bill 6), and fight the citizens\u2019 referendum against the bill.\r\n\r\nThe guilty verdicts in the Householder and Borges trial has powerful implications for the rest of the country. Citizens United v. FEC may have opened the floodgates of corporate cash, but that doesn\u2019t mean that pay-to-play is legal or right. The trial revealed the importance of basic financial disclosure, and how essential it is for the public to be able to follow the money behind political advertising.\r\n\r\nTransparency is key to reform. We must improve accountability and strengthen existing laws designed to discourage bribery of our leaders. With that firmly in mind, we offer you the following transcripts from the trial."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transparency is Key\u2014Householder Trial Transcripts - Common Cause Ohio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transparency is Key\u2014Householder Trial Transcripts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/OH.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/transparency-is-key-householder-trial-transcripts\/\",\"name\":\"Transparency is Key\u2014Householder Trial Transcripts - 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