[Editor’s Note: This article was first published August 16, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish..
FirstEnergy conceded it was a bribe, but its former executives and former PUCO Chairman Sam Randazzo said it wasn’t. Either way, a judge in a federal class-action case is again ordering Randazzo to fork over documents including emails addressing how he spent the $4.3 million he got from FirstEnergy in 2019 just as he was about to take the helm of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the agency tasked with regulating FirstEnergy.
A 28-year-old Columbus man was ordered detained after he appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge this month after a criminal complaint charging him with sex trafficking was unsealed.
A Columbus woman suspected of stealing a car with 5-month-old twins in it last month will have a federal detention hearing soon, after which her local charges will likely be dismissed, according to C…
A federal magistrate judge on Friday told FirstEnergy Corp. it must produce a new deposition witness in an ongoing securities lawsuit stemming from a massive federal corruption probe, after finding the utility did not adequately prepare the witness to answer reasonable questions.