Nuclear Bailout

The civil suit, which was initially filed in September 2020, includes former House Speaker Larry Householder and FirstEnergy.

The audit says FirstEnergy should refund ratepayers $6.6M which was flagged by FirstEnergy as being "improperly classified, misallocated, or lacked documentation."

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine spent last week fielding questions about when he first learned that FirstEnergy had paid a $4.3 million bribe to the man who later became the state’s top utility regulator. We talk about the growing FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal on the Weekly Reporter Roundtable.

Democrats in the Ohio House want Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) to fire two members of his staff in response to new information to come out related to the...

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss FirstEnergy's admission that it paid $4.3 million to Sam Randazzo just before he became the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chair under Gov. Mike DeWine.

FirstEnergy says it paid a bribe of more than $4 million dollars to Sam Randazzo before he became chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Gov....

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has made his first public comments since last week’s plea deal from FirstEnergy in the federal corruption case involving the nuclear power plant bailout law known as House Bill 6.

The U.S. Attorney’s office has charged FirstEnergy Corp. with wire fraud in connection with ongoing investigation over HB6, the nuclear bailout law. On the weekly Reporter Roundtable, we explore the latest chapter in the Ohio bribery scandal.

FirstEnergy will pay a $230 million fine in a plea deal with federal prosecutors in the federal investigation into the $1.6 billion bailout for Ohio’s two nuclear energy plants. But some argue state leaders have not done enough to prevent back room dealing that can lead to scandals like this.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the rise in COVID cases due to the Delta variant and the FirstEnergy settlement to avoid prosecution in the nuclear bailout scandal.