Republican lobbyist Matt Borges sentenced to 5 years in prison for role in bribery scandal

Updated: Jun. 30, 2023, 4:55 p.m.
Published: Jun. 30, 2023, 12:30 p.m.

Householder corruption trial — Former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges (right) and his attorneys Todd Long and Karl Schneider, pictured here in January 2023 entering the federal courthouse in Cincinnati. David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com

Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com

CINCINNATI, Ohio — Former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison in connection with the Larry Householder-led political corruption scandal that engulfed state politics for years.

Borges, 51, worked as a lobbyist for FirstEnergy Solutions and alongside Householder — the former Ohio House Speaker who is now a federal prisoner — to scuttle opposition to a law that gave FirstEnergy a $1 billion bailout for two aging nuclear powerplants owned by a subsidiary of the Akron-based utility in exchange for $60 million in bribes.

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