Nuclear Bailout

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.

FirstEnergy will pay $230 million after entering into a deferred prosecution agreement over charges that bribed then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Public Utilities of Ohio Commission chair Sam Randazzo.

Members of the Ohio House voted 75-21 Wednesday to oust Rep. Larry Householder over his alleged involvement in a $61 million corruption case. We look at the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to remove Householder and the process to replace him.

The Ohio House has voted to expel former House Speaker Larry Householder for his role in an alleged federal bribery scheme.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder continues to say he will not resign. Householder lost the speaker's gavel last year over a federal indictment accusing him of leading a $60 million bribery scheme, but he's pleaded not guilty and in a hearing last Tuesday repeated that he will not leave the House willingly.

Ohio lawmakers met to hear rare bipartisan arguments to remove the former House speaker embroiled in a $60 million federal bribery scheme.

AEP Ohio said the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into benefits from HB6, the energy bill at the center of a bribery scandal.

The state's consumer watchdog is calling for the repeal of coal plant subsidies, which were approved in the controversial nuclear bailout, HB6. A bill now at the center of an alleged bribery scheme. The Ohio Consumers' Counsel office says the coal plant subsidies mean ratepayers are bearing the cost of inefficient plants.

Former Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford) remains in the Ohio House as he awaits trial on federal bribery charges related to the 2019 passage of House Bill 6, the sweeping energy law.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is seeking an independent company to conduct an audit of two coal plants owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, or OVEC. The plants receive hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from Ohio ratepayers.