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PUCO staff accepted utilities’ claims that information they made public were trade secrets

2023-12-21

Still-unnamed staff members of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accepted utilities’ vague claims of trade secrecy when they recommended hiding information from the public audit of the state’s HB 6 law even though the utilities themselves had already made much of the data public. In December 2021, three utility companies sought a protective order… Read more »

C&BP files FOIA request for details of PUCO protective order in HB 6 case

2023-12-14

Checks & Balances Project filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) Thursday, seeking the names and deliberations of staff members who recommended granting the protective order that hid key details from the audit into the effects of Ohio’s HB 6 law. The protective order granted July 7… Read more »

References to Boich Companies in FirstEnergy deferred prosecution agreement

2023-12-13

Many of the activities of the Boich Companies, owners of coal supplier Resource Fuels, are included in the 2021 federal deferred prosecution agreement signed by FirstEnergy, the Akron-based utility that admitted bribing its way to the passage of HB 6, the 2019 law that bailed out power plants tied to the company. The deferred prosecution… Read more »

Sam Randazzo indicted for role in Ohio’s HB 6 scandal

2023-12-4

Sam Randazzo, the former chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, was charged in an 11-count indictment for his involvement in the passage of the HB 6 that bailed out money-losing nuclear- and coal-fueled power plants and gutted Ohio’s renewable energy mandate. Randazzo, the PUCO chair from April 2019 until his resignation in November… Read more »

Audit information still redacted despite PUCO claim

2023-11-29

Information removed from the audit into Ohio’s HB6 law by a protective order granted by the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) is still unavailable although some of the details were ostensibly unredacted during a Nov. 2 hearing on the case. Those details include the identity of the company that has been overcharging for coal supplied… Read more »

C&BP seeks identities of PUCO staffers who recommended HB6 audit protective order

2023-11-26

Checks & Balances Project is requesting the identities of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission staff members who recommended issuing the protective order that declared publicly available information to be trade secrets in the audit conducted into the details of Ohio’s HB6 law. The order, granted July 7 by Attorney Examiner Megan Addison, forced the redaction… Read more »

PUCO’s protective order redacts publicly available information

2023-11-20

A protective order issued by the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) in its audit of the scandal-plagued HB6 law redacts publicly available information that can be found on federal websites and the annual reports of the utility bailed out by HB6. The order issued July 7, 2023, said information contained in the audit conducted by… Read more »

Coal supplier for HB6-connected plants continued to overcharge for fuel

2023-11-15

Resource Fuels, the coal supplier to power plants at the heart of Ohio’s HB6 corruption scandal, has consistently been overpaid for coal during the first three the law has been in effect, according to an analysis of federal energy data conducted by Checks & Balances Project. On Nov. 13, Checks & Balances Project reported that… Read more »

HB6 enabled coal company that donated to Householder bribery fund to keep overcharging for coal

2023-11-12

A coal company that donated to the fund used to bribe former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder was overpaid for coal because of the law the now-imprisoned Householder rammed through the Ohio Legislature in 2019, according to an audit of the law, federal records and testimony by utility analysts. That law, HB6, includes riders that… Read more »

Householder gets 20-year sentence for his role in massive utility bailout scheme

2023-06-30

Larry Householder, the former Ohio House speaker convicted of bribery and racketeering for his role in a massive scheme to bail out a utility’s failing power plants, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. “You were not serving the people,” U.S. District Judge Timothy Black told Householder. “You were serving yourself. You were… Read more »

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