The legal dispute over whether it was appropriate to freeze $8 million in personal assets belonging to a former top Ohio utility regulator caught up in a federal bribery investigation has ping-ponged once again. In a ruling Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the Tenth District Court of Appeals' decision and reinstated a lower court’s order, allowing Sam Randazzo’s assets to be frozen once again. The high court determined the appeals court erred on a technicality when it unfroze Randazzo’s property.
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The justices all agreed that the state could freeze the assets of former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chair Sam Randazzo, who has pleaded not guilty in the corruption scandal involving FirstEnergy.
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