Firm gets more time to explain bills for bailout legislation
By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday gave law firm employees another three months to explain in detail the millions of dollars they billed for lobbying and other work on behalf of an electric utility in support of a now-tainted Ohio energy bill.
Judge Alan Koschik told three partners and a senior policy adviser at the national firm Akin Gump they have until Oct. 12 to submit documentation.
The four submitted $3.3 million in bills to the court for their work from March 2018 until February 2020 in support of FirstEnergy Solutions’ bankruptcy and lobbying for a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants operated at the time by the wholly-owned FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary.
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Entities acting on behalf of Energy Harbor and the international law firm of Akin Gump Straus Hauer & Feld have asked a federal bankruptcy court for a delay.