Decades of rampant pay-to-play political corruption in Ohio has summoned a breed of public officials who treat state government like a personal playground of private profiteering for themselves and their moneyed friends, writes Editor David DeWitt.
At trial, prosecutors portrayed Larry Householder as an unprincipled official who pulled together a criminal scheme in a lust for power and to line his pockets. Householder's attorneys said he was a normal politician trying to save jobs.
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