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An FBI affidavit to support a criminal complaint against Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder details how he and others used money provided by an unidentified company known to be FirstEnergy Corp. and its affiliates to return Householder to power and get a roughly $1 billion bailout approved for the company’s Ohio nuclear plants.
July 25, 2020
Business
The Ohio utility says it is too early to place blame for the massive outage. S&P; says it may cut the company’s debt rating.
Aug. 19, 2003
The investigators’ final report says FirstEnergy could have prevented the huge Aug. 14 outage.
April 6, 2004
FirstEnergy Corp., an Ohio utility owner, is in talks to buy GPU Inc. of New Jersey for more than $4 billion in stock.
Aug. 8, 2000
Ohio utility FirstEnergy Corp., whose transmission lines have been cited as a possible factor in the massive Aug. 14 blackout, Thursday revised three regulatory filings, citing tens of millions of dollars in “typographical and minor computational errors.”
Sept. 12, 2003
The chief of Akron’s FirstEnergy cites ‘the cumulative effect’ of ‘many small chance events’ in the region as causing the failure.
Sept. 5, 2003
A Midwest grid operator and FirstEnergy are faulted in the massive Northeast outage.
Nov. 20, 2003
Federal regulators are investigating whether the owner of a nuclear plant where acid nearly ate through a 6-inch-thick steel reactor cap had altered records about the damage, the company says.
Aug. 31, 2002
The high temperatures and low water levels in Lake Erie have brought two nuclear plants close to having to shut down their reactors.
Aug. 10, 1999
A puff of smoke and a spray of water came from an Ohio nuclear plant Monday as workers brought it back online after a two-year shutdown ordered when leaking acid nearly ate through a protective steel reactor cap.
March 9, 2004