Get Dumped Then, Larry Householder
RICO charges rain on Ohio's wannabe Huey Long.
I remember watching Larry Householder’s ad for the first time. My Marionaire sense tingled which meant he was simply an old man roleplaying as a militia member.
If I’m wrong, then surely Speaker Householder, who is currently channelling David Koresh for a final standoff with overreaching federal agents. Isn’t this the sole purpose of owning gun?
Nah. Householder can’t run around the block. He will surrender his guns. They were nothing to him than political props.
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Woke up yesterday thinking that eating my first plate of solid food in a month would be the best thing to happen to me that day.
The illusion lasted 45 seconds.
From Laura Bischoff of Dayton Daily News who broke the story:
In what federal prosecutors describe as the largest bribery scheme in state history, Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four other men are accused of taking $60 million in exchange for pushing through a controversial energy bailout bill that cost Ohioans more than $1 billion.
Householder faces a federal racketeering charge, alleging that he took $60 million in bribes from an unidentified Akron-based utility in exchange for getting House Bill 6 passed into law last year.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Dave DeVillers called it the largest bribery and money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the state of Ohio.
I punched myself to make sure I wasn’t in a dream. I punched myself again just to check.
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The next time we see Householder in this pose, he could be telling to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Householder’s first stint at Speaker in 2004 ended under a cloud of an FBI investigation into money laundering and irregular campaign financing.
After some DUIs and and local elections in Perry County, he returned to Columbus over a decade later to… run the same fraud on a larger scale????
I’ve wondered why no hotshot FBI agent or federal prosecutor wanted Householder. I wondered if they too had fallen for his “aww shucks” local boy act.
Not only did the man return to prominence using a torrent of illegal corporate money, he marshaled that money into an army stooges that helped pass the worst energy law of the 21st century. Unfortunately for him the feds were watching.
Householder evaded FBI investigation in 2004 and returned to power in 2018 and decided to run the same illicit play. On one hand, I respect it. On the other, how in the Hell is someone this dumb the third most powerful politician in the state? Nix that last question, I already know the answer.
My biggest gripe about the corruption in Ohio is it’s being perpetrated by boring bums who don’t even have the courtesy to be interesting.
Householder was the one grifter I conceded qualified as interesting until I read his price for committing $1.5 billion of fraud on the people he swore to represent:
Householder received more than $400,000 in personal benefits, including money to settle a personal lawsuit, pay for renovations to his home in Florida and pay off thousands of dollars in credit card debt.
Householder’s tackiness is a symptom, not the disease. He would have never returned to the Lincoln Chair if the Ohio House of Representatives weren’t an institution that should be burned to the ground.
I’m older than two weeks. I remember when Householder claimed he didn’t own a mask. Life comes at you fast:
Householder’s wife is realizing RICO charges mean her days of farming hemp are over. Judging by the primal fear in their eyes, I’m thinking this is a day they never saw coming.
And why would they? Republicans have controlled Ohio for 25 of the last 27 years. In their defense, maybe HB6 and the thugs that prevented a ballot repeal were the first corrupt act to ever happen in state government. Maybe.
However, I’m of the belief that there are tons of dumb motherfuckers scrambling to cover their tracks. I’m thinking their tons of soft-ass Boomers chattering on burner phones they think are anonymous.
I’m no cheerleader of the FBI, and yet somehow I take solace knowing the comedy federal agents found in reading Householder trying to shame the Ohio State Highway Patrol into finding the mastermind spraypainter that tagged the Statehouse.
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No day is perfect in Columbus. Police show more deference to the mastermind of the largest bribe in Ohio history than hardworking citizens peacefully protesting police brutality:
I was going to put Householder to the sake today. But why would I burn him over a day when I can burn him over a week? Tomorrow we talk about his top henchmen that will spend the next six months sweating.
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