FirstEnergy Reaches $20 Million Settlement With Ohio

The energy company at the center of a $61 million bribery scheme says it will pay the state of Ohio a $20 million settlement to avoid prosecution in an ongoing corruption investigation.

FirstEnergy will pay $19.5 million to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office for whatever the office deems proper “which may include, without limitation, a charitable law fund established under O.R.C. § 109.32 to be distributed to a non-energy charitable organization to be determined by the Office of the Ohio Attorney General, and the reimbursement of the time and expenses of the Summit County Prosecutor, the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission in conducting their investigation.

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