An explosive document from the United States Department of Justice indicates former Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder was part of a massive pay-to-play scandal in 2019 during the process of bringing sports betting to the state, according to a report from WKYC in Ohio.
Householder is currently facing federal conspiracy charges in a separate case, and his legal team attempted to block the alleged pay-to-play details from being heard by jurors in his upcoming, early-2023 trial.
The DOJ apparently disagreed, and in its response to Householder's motion laid out his alleged ploy.
New court documents filed by the U.S. Department of Justice suggest that former Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder was at the center of a 'pay-to-play' bribery scandal to try to bring legalized sports betting to Ohio. https://t.co/iX1YD2mNev