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Dems fault GOP, return cash tainted by Ohio bribery scheme

by Report for America/Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 4:30 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With their presidential hopes high for fall, some Ohio Democrats who helped seat a now-indicted Republican House speaker and pass the nuclear bailout bill prosecutors allege he delivered as part of a nearly $61 million bribery scheme have begun shedding campaign contributions tainted by the related federal probe.

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