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Firm gets more time to explain bills for bailout legislation By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday gave law firm employees another three months to explain in detail the millions of dollars they billed for lobbying and other work on behalf of an electric utility in support of a now-tainted Ohio energy bill. Judge Alan Koschik told three partners and a senior policy adviser at the national firm Akin Gump they have until Oct. 12 to submit documentation. The four submitted $3.3 million in bills to the court for their work from March 2018 unt...
The judge overseeing the final stages of the FirstEnergy Solutions bankruptcy case has agreed to push back a hearing to July on whether to approve more than $68 million in professional fees and expenses to international law firm Akin Gump. As part of that, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Alan Koschik in Akron also agreed to delays in the filings of affidavits by four Ohio lobbyists with Akin Gump in answering questions tied to the criminal investigation of the $61 million Larry Householder bribery case. The criminal case also has involved Akron utility FirstEnergy Corp. and its former First...