CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is seeking to add two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives and the state’s former top utility regulator to a state racketeering lawsuit for their alleged roles in helping to win passage of a tainted 2019 energy bill.
The executives are former CEO Chuck Jones and former Senior Vice President Michael Dowling.
FirstEnergy in a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid federal criminal charges says the executives worked with former Ohio utilities commission chair Sam Randazzo to help win passage of the bill that included a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants and an annual revenue guarantee for the Akron-based utility’s three Ohio electric companies.