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C&BP seeks Sussex County records on firing of county administrator
2026-07-9
Checks & Balances Project (C&BP) filed a Freedom of Information Act with Sussex County, Virginia, seeking all communications and records related to the April firing of County Administrator Richard Douglas. In a motion by Supervisor Alfred Futrell, Douglas was fired April 16 in a surprise vote by county supervisors. His removal followed months of dissatisfaction… Read more »
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C&BP files complaints with law enforcement agencies
2026-07-7
Checks & Balances Project (C&BP) has filed complaints with four Virginia law enforcement agencies seeking an investigation into the activities of Sussex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve White and the Stony Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad. Filed Monday, C&BP sent complaints to the Sussex County Sheriff’s Department, Commonwealth Attorney, Virginia Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and… Read more »
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Supreme Court rejects Householder appeal
2026-04-27
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder’s appeal of his 2023 bribery conviction and 20-year prison sentence tied to his corrupt passage of the HB 6 law that bailed out two coal-burning power plants. The court didn’t state its reasons for denying the appeal Monday. It also rejected… Read more »
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Critical energy agency may face privatization
2025-01-8
The federal agency that collects data about how power plants generate electricity, the fuel they use and how much it costs could be a target for budget cutters or privatization in the upcoming Donald Trump administration, federal budget and other records show. During Trump’s first term in office between 2017 and 2021, he attempted to… Read more »
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Resource Fuels owner filed no lobbying reports despite pushing for HB 6
2023-12-13
The Boich Companies filed Ohio forms claiming they conducted no lobbying from 2017 through 2019, even though court records show their officials were intimately involved in the passage of HB 6, the law requiring state ratepayers to bail out two coal-fired power plants. Boich’s lobbying reports are another facet of the company’s stealth campaign to… Read more »
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