FBI Affidavit Details $60M Corruption Scheme Led by Ohio's Most Powerful Elected Officials

A lengthy FBI agent affidavit detailing an alleged $60 million corruption scheme led by one of Ohio's most powerful elected officials provides painstaking detail about groups and individuals who played roles in spending mostly corporate cash. Using public records, media reports and clues in the affidavit, here are the names of the groups and a synopsis of the roles they played: GENERATION NOW The affidavit and indictment detail how Householder and Longstreth used this dark money group as the main conduit for $60 million in payments from FirstEnergy Corp. affiliates to return Householder to power, push a $1 billion bailout for two aging nuclear plants through the Legislature and keep an anti-bailout referendum off the Ohio ballot. DARK MONEY GROUP 1 A dark money group separate from Generation Now, his was an organization that was used by Householder's “enterprise” to conceal money on media buys during the 2018 general election, according to the affidavit. According to the affidavit, Dark Money Group 1 received nearly $1.5 million, including $670,000 from Generation Now, $500,000 from Company A and $300,000 from “other corporate interests.” ENERGY PASS-THROUGH This is a group described in the affidavit as a nonprofit incorporated in Ohio on Feb. 8, 2017, two days after it was incorporated in Delaware.