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Gov. Mike DeWine says he knew nothing about Randazzo acts, will donate FirstEnergy contributions Gov. Mike DeWine said he was unaware of any improper acts committed by his Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Sam Randazzo. Randazzo has not been charged with any crime, but details from Akron-based FirstEnergy's deferred prosecution agreement allege the company paid Randazzo $4.3 million to work on their behalf.  "If, as stated in the court documents, Sam Randazzo committed acts to improperly benefit First Energy, his motives were not known by me or my staff," DeWine said in a statemen...

FBI investigation revealed vast FirstEnergy-backed political network hidden through lax state disclosure rules Updated Jan 19, 2021; COLUMBUS, Ohio – Legal filings and media reports over the past six months gradually have peeled back the layers of a dark-money political network funded by FirstEnergy, the Akron-based utility company. But because state and federal law don’t require political nonprofits to disclose their donors, the only reason the public knows about anything about the utility’s ties to the expansive constellation of Ohio political causes is the federal investigation into...

Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBUS – Money from Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. comprised more than one-third of all contributions to a dark money group supporting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and likely all of the cash given to one backing his daughter's county prosecutor bid, newly revealed 2019 tax records show.  The donations came the same year that Ohio's GOP-controlled Legislature passed House Bill 6, which included a $1 billion subsidy for two nuclear plants, then-owned by FirstEnergy Solutions. DeWine signed the bill within hours of it reaching his desk. DeWine's daughter Alice DeWine annou...

COLUMBUS – Cash from FirstEnergy Corp. and related businesses reached the coffers of dark money groups supporting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his daughter and Greene County prosecutor candidate, Alice DeWine, newly revealed tax documents show. The documents shed new light on a key player in a federal bribery investigation that entangled the former Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four others in July. They also show for the first time where a dark money group supporting Alice DeWine's bid for county prosecutor got some of its funding. A spokesman for the governor told The Enquirer on W...

Groups backing Gov. DeWine and his daughter received FirstEnergy cash funneled through dark money outfits Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati Enquirer Replay Video UP NEXT COLUMBUS – Cash from FirstEnergy Corp. and related businesses reached the coffers of dark money groups supporting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his daughter and Greene County prosecutor candidate, Alice DeWine, newly revealed tax documents show. The documents shed new light on a key player in a federal bribery investigation that entangled the former Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four others in July. They ...