COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The guilty verdicts for former Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder and former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party Matt Borges came as a shock to some, but they were a relief for whistleblower Tyler Fehrman.
“Because it meant I could finally tell my side of the story,” Fehrman said in an interview. “It meant there were consequences for bad actors, and that they’re being held accountable.”
Fehrman knew Householder and Borges for years, he said, but considered Borges a close friend and mentor. When Fehrman received a call to manage the House Bill 6 referendum campaign — the legislation involved in the $60 million bribery scheme — Borges was his first call.
“I didn’t want to damage our personal or professional relationship,” Fehrman said. “But he told me ‘It’s politics, we are going to be on opposite sides sometimes, don’t worry about it.’”
Fehrman said, however, everything started to get murky shortly after he took that job.
Borges was working on the effort to uphold the legislation — and called him and asked to meet for coffee, Fehrman said.
Fehrman did not think much of it, because they would regularly do so, but this time was different. Borges started asking him for information on how the campaign was going, how many signatures they had collected and where the petitioners were located.
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