Written by rjs, MarketWatch 666This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times).
Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley subpoenas several employees, records connected to HB6 bribery scheme
In July of last year, several people were arrested for a pay to play bribery scheme connected to failing power and coal plants. Author: Hope Sloop Updated: 1:13 PM EDT May 25, 2021
Editor s note: The video in the player above is from a story published on July 29, 2020.
Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley signed three subpoenas on Monday, asking for the new statutory agent of Generation Now Ohio Inc., as well as the “Records Custodian” at Fifth Third and Huntington banks, to testify with the Cleveland City Council.
Cleveland City Council subpoenas for dark-money documents in anti-CPP effort go unanswered
Updated Apr 08, 2021;
Posted Apr 08, 2021
A nonprofit at the heart of a $60-million statehouse corruption scandal has not answered Cleveland City Council subpoenas for documents dealing with the FirstEnergy’s suspected funding of an effort discredit Cleveland Public Power.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – A nonprofit at the heart of a $60-million statehouse corruption scandal has not answered Cleveland City Council subpoenas for documents dealing with the FirstEnergy’s suspected funding of an effort discredit Cleveland Public Power.
Attempts to reach Generation Now for comment were not immediately successful.
Kelley said the council will consult lawyers to determine what, if anything, happens next.
Generation Now, the nonprofit that prosecutors say received millions in bribes, pleads guilty to racketeering charge involving House Bill 6 John Caniglia, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio The nonprofit at the heart of the state’s largest corruption scandal pleaded guilty Friday to a federal racketeering charge involving House Bill 6.
Generation Now helped receive more than $60 million in bribes that FirstEnergy Corp. and its affiliates gave former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and his allies in exchange for the passage of a $1.3 billion bailout for two aging nuclear power plants that a FirstEnergy subsidiary once owned, according to federal court filings.
The plea before U.S. District Judge Timothy Black in Cincinnati called for the forfeiture of nearly $1.5 million. The plea agreement in the case and other documents show the purpose of Generation Now was to take in undisclosed donations from FirstEnergy and its affiliates to benefit Householder.