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The Akron Beacon-Journal reports:
Akron-based FirstEnergy will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of an agreement with state prosecutors to resolve the company’s role in a statewide bribery scandal. As part of the agreement, FirstEnergy will cooperate with an Ohio Attorney General’s Office and Summit County Prosecutor’s Office investigation into a pay-to-play scandal.
FirstEnergy previously admitted it bribed former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder [photo] and ex-Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo to help the company secure a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants and other favorable treatment. FirstEnergy paid a $230 million fine as part of a 2021 settlement with federal prosecutors.
Read the full article. Last year Householder was sentenced to 20 years. Randazzo and another GOP official both died by suicide. The state GOP chairman got five years.
FirstEnergy makes $20 million deal with AG Dave Yost to avoid HB6 prosecution, drop company from civil lawsuit https://t.co/ohiFgnrPZo
— BLM Cleveland (@BLM_216) August 13, 2024
This company @firstenergycorp took $456 million between 2017 and 2019 for to improve the electric grid and did nothing. $20 million is not enough. => FirstEnergy to pay $20M, avoid criminal charges in state pay-to-play investigation https://t.co/pXRUFPmZbu via @beaconjournal
— Kent Smith (@KentKSmith) August 13, 2024
Ohio Republican Accused In Massive Bribery Scandal Dies By Suicide, Second Republican To Do So In Case https://t.co/6xiJAeRsyY pic.twitter.com/bMWThXRWyY
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 10, 2024
Ex-Ohio GOP Chair Gets Five Years In Bribery Scheme
https://t.co/M2xHhFgMcN pic.twitter.com/xpzliH5wJq— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 30, 2023
Former Ohio Republican House Speaker Sentenced To 20 Years In $60M Nuclear Power Plant Bribery Scheme
https://t.co/1l9cEbciuL pic.twitter.com/6Y0lvbDEa4— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 29, 2023