Businesses urge DeWine to restore confidence in PUCO Businesses urge DeWine to restore confidence in PUCO ELLEN ZUCKERMAN Ellen Zuckerman The backdrop to the discussions Ohio lawmakers are having this week over the fate of House Bill 6 — a $1 billion bailout law for two nuclear plants — is essentially a scandal. Last month, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) chairman Sam Randazzo resigned from his position as Ohio's chief utility regulator following an FBI search of his home and disclosure that FirstEnergy paid $4 million to end a contract with a consulting company that in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing fit the description of one linked to Randazzo.