A state regulator granted a request from FirstEnergy Corp., purportedly made at the behest of federal prosecutors investigating the company’s lobbying practices, to cut off a state watchdog agency’s deposition of the company’s former top ethics officer last week. The Akron-based utility company last summer admitted to bribing two state officials with about $64 million in exchange […]
“It’s just a matter of timing, and the U.S. Attorney’s office has represented to us that the timing of these questions would materially impact their investigation.”