FirstEnergy

Republican Keith Faber and Democrat John J. Kulewicz are miles apart on a January trial of FirstEnergy executives.

A trial in March ended in a mistrial for Charles "Chuck" Jones, former CEO of FirstEnergy, and Michael Dowling, the former senior vice president of external affairs, after the jury deadlocked.

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This comes on what would have been the jury's ninth day of deliberations, and a day after they had told Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ross they were at an impasse.

The state says Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling bribed the state's top utility regulator Sam Randazzo. But the former execs' lawyers say Randazzo was the criminal.

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State regulators at the PUCO held hearings to determine if FirstEnergy broke state regulations during a 2019 corruption scandal. But the PUCO itself enabled some of the corruption.

FirstEnergy has agreed to pay a $100 million fine to settle civil fraud charges from the SEC, but the federal agency will go ahead with civil fraud charges against the utility’s former top executive.

The deal is the latest in the $60 million bribery scheme that involved Republican former speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Matt Borges, who are both in federal prison.

Gov. Mike DeWine said he asked a lot of people for money during his 2018 campaign and doesn't remember asking FirstEnergy for a half-million dollar donation.