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.