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Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme
Breitbart ^ | 21 Jul 2020 | HARIS ALIC

Posted on 07/21/2020 9:01:07 PM PDT by M. Thatcher

The founder of a prominent political action committee opposing President Donald Trump’s reelection was arrested on Tuesday in part of a public corruption probe. Matthew Borges, a lobbyist and former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, was arrested in connection to a year-long $60 million federal bribery scheme. According to prosecutors, Borges and three other lobbyists allegedly conspired with the Republican Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives to secure a $1.3 billion taxpayer bailout for an Ohio-based energy company, FirstEnergy Solutions. Law enforcement officials claim that in exchange for helping FirstEnergy receive the bailout, which was meant to prevent the shutdown of two nuclear power plants, a nonprofit controlled by the House Speaker received $60 million. [EXCERPT]

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; firstenergysolutions; fraud; householder; larryhouseholder; matthewborges; nevertrump; ohio; pac; rino
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To: SunkenCiv

Anthony Scaramucci just joined with Borges in the RightSide PAC. I bet we won’t be hearing from him any time soon.


41 posted on 07/21/2020 10:44:25 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: ETCM

According to Wikipedia: “He [Borges] is a lifetime member of the McCain Alumni Association, and in 2019 was appointed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to the Board of Trustees at Columbus State University.”


42 posted on 07/21/2020 10:47:41 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: M. Thatcher

May he and every member of his family suffer for eternity.


43 posted on 07/21/2020 10:57:24 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: robel
What? No three year long threat of an investigation? They just go and make an arrest?

It was a two-year investigation, according to The Cincinnati Inquirer:

click here

44 posted on 07/21/2020 10:59:07 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: gdc61

What about Georgie Porgy Conway? He’s deep into that garbage, too. Throw him in jail with the rest of that cabal, and give Kellyanne a break.


45 posted on 07/21/2020 11:00:26 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: M. Thatcher

Why do they get so greedy? If it was just a couple mil, it probably would have flown under the radar.


46 posted on 07/21/2020 11:17:20 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: M. Thatcher

The whole bunch are a lot of pothead losers.


47 posted on 07/21/2020 11:45:05 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: M. Thatcher

Wow.


48 posted on 07/22/2020 12:10:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: M. Thatcher

Karma is a bitch.

Go Trump! Drain the swamp.


49 posted on 07/22/2020 12:46:55 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: M. Thatcher

The way of the RINO.


50 posted on 07/22/2020 1:17:41 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: ETCM; ransomnote; bitt; little jeremiah

Check #28 for kasich connection to DOJ bribery probe target

Just as suspected


51 posted on 07/22/2020 3:13:58 AM PDT by thinden
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To: EinNYC

I’d LOVE to see that massive fecal-filled dirtbag crying his was to prison.


52 posted on 07/22/2020 7:28:11 AM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: M. Thatcher

Please, someone tell me that this is “The Lincoln Group” we’ve all be hearing so much about because of Kellyanne’s asshole husband et al.


53 posted on 07/22/2020 7:38:54 AM PDT by OKSooner (Saint Nicholas is a real Christian Saint from the 3rd and 4th centuries. John Durham does not exist.)
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To: rintintin

I betcha some of this slime does reach down to Kasich.
The timeline would seem to cover some of his time as Governor.


54 posted on 07/22/2020 7:47:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; big bad easter bunny; ...

OHIO PING!

Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.

Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme
7/22/2020, 12:01:07 AM · by M. Thatcher · 53 replies
Breitbart ^ | 21 Jul 2020 | HARIS ALIC


55 posted on 07/22/2020 7:54:12 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: DoodleBob; M. Thatcher

Does the guy have links to DeWine?

It would be just to sweet if he does.

Given that DeWine and Kasich were butt buddies for years I would not be surprised.


56 posted on 07/22/2020 8:39:48 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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