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  • Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme

    07/21/2020 9:01:07 PM PDT · by M. Thatcher · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 21 Jul 2020 | HARIS ALIC
    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...