COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio House plans to vote Thursday to remove the disgraced speaker arrested last week in connection with a $60 million federal bribery probe, after majority Republicans agreed to proceed Tuesday in a secret vote prompted by Larry Householder’s refusal to resign.
The vote came in a closed-door meeting that followed the release of a federal affidavit July 21 identifying Householder and four associates as part of an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving millions of dollars of corporate money secretly funneled to them in exchange for passing legislation to bail out two nuclear plants.
Neither Householder nor his attorney has commented.