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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 »

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 »

Anti-Wind Activists Leave Trail of Recrimination, Lost Revenue In Rural Michigan Communities

2021-07-14

A trio of anti-wind activists have crisscrossed rural Michigan over the last dozen years, casting doubt on proven science, making unfounded allegations of government corruption and refusing to disclose the source of their financial support. As a result, rural Michigan communities they have visited have been mired in fierce disputes among neighbors, marked by… Read more »

Ohio Official: State Might Have 100,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells

2021-04-21

Ohio passed legislation in 2018 that increased funds for capping oil and natural gas wells with no identifiable owners or that are bankrupt. But an analysis of state data shows the rate they’re being capped has been declining at 5% per year since the 1990s.

Ohio Speaker’s Office Sends Proof that Majority Leader Seitz Exchanged Email with a Canadian!

2021-04-2

We Asked, Though, for Text Messages with the Gov’s Chief of Staff, PUC Chair, First Energy CEO and a Lobbyist…. It took four and a half months, but we finally got a response to our request for records of powerful Ohio House Majority Leader Bill Seitz relating to a disgraced official and the $61 million… Read more »

Randazzo Secretly Bought 5 Ohio Properties Starting in 2013

2020-11-24

FirstEnergy Corp. admits to paying $4 million to end a consulting contract with “an entity associated with an individual who subsequently was appointed” as utilities regulator. The contract began in 2013, when Randazzo began buying properties.

Ohio PUC Chair Randazzo’s Ties to Players in $61M FirstEnergy Scandal Raise Questions

2020-11-2

C&BP launches “The Randazzo Accountability Project,” building upon several years of our previous investigative work into various players in Columbus’s culture of corruption.

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