Matt Borges: An FBI Arrest, a Rejected Plea Deal, and a RICO Conviction
Matt Borges was a former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, working as a political consultant, when FBI agents pounded on his door at 6 a.m. in July 2020. They put him in handcuffs and drove him downtown, and for hours nobody would tell him why. Then he walked into the U.S. Marshals office and saw the speaker of the Ohio House sitting in a jail cell.
The case was about House Bill 6, a law that saved 2 Ohio nuclear power plants. Prosecutors said the speaker had been bribed to pass it. Nobody ever accused Matt of giving or taking a bribe. His part came after the bill passed, when he worked…
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