FirstEnergy Continues to Clean House re Bribery Scandal

Ohio’s House Bill (HB) 6 law granted billions (plural) of dollars to FirstEnergy in an attempt to prop up the company’s economically failing nuclear power plants. FirstEnergy bribed state legislators to pass, and keep passed, HB 6 by paying out $61 million to a small group of insiders, including the now-former Speaker of the House (see FirstEnergy Involved in Bribery Scheme to Pass $1B Nuke Bailout Law). It is the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history. Last October the FirstEnergy board fired the CEO, Senior VP of Marketing, and Senior VP of External Affairs over the scandal. Add one more to the list...

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