FirstEnergy bailout

Coal plants helped cause bribery scandal. Now FirstEnergy might be buying one back

BY: - March 21, 2023

Akron-based FirstEnergy might be poised to increase its coal-fired generation capacity by 40% with the purchase of a West Virginia plant it owned less than four years ago and spun off as part of a massive racketeering scandal. The reason why the company paid out more than $60 million between 2017 and 2020 to force […]

FirstEnergy scandal whistleblower says he feels vindicated after public corruption trial testimony

BY: - March 6, 2023

The following article was originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published in the Ohio Capital Journal under a content-sharing agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free republication by other news outlets as it is owned by WEWS in Cleveland.   Tyler Fehrman, the Republican operative who is credited with exposing mass public corruption […]