Follow the money.

"In the early hours of Nov. 16, 2020, FBI agents wearing navy blue jackets and COVID-19 masks removed box after box from the Columbus condominium of Ohio's top utility regulator, #SamRandazzo

It was the first time Randazzo, then chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of #Ohio was implicated in a pay-for-play scandal at the Ohio Statehouse. Randazzo resigned days later and began waiting for the other shoe to drop." #HB6 #MikeDeWine

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2024/04/25/how-ohios-top-utility-regulator-got-caught-up-in-pay-to-play-scandal/73436920007/

Unanswered questions: How Ohio's top utility regulator got caught up in pay-to-play scandal

Ex-PUCO chairman Sam Randazzo was among Ohio's brightest minds on energy policy. So how did he get caught up in the state's largest scandal?

Akron Beacon Journal

More from the saga of the biggest state corruption story, #Ohio GOP #MikeDeWine #FirstEnergy #SamRandazzo #HB6

"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) β€” A 911 call released by Columbus police reveals more details about how the body of Sam Randazzo was discovered Tuesday morning."

https://woub.org/2024/04/15/911-call-wellness-check-sam-randazzo-released/

The 911 call requesting a wellness check for Sam Randazzo that led to his body being found has been released

Randazzo faced state and federal charges tied to the House Bill 6 nuclear bailout scandal and to his business.

WOUB Public Media

Recent #OHIO headlines:

Indicted former Ohio utility chair #SamRandazzo reported dead by #suicide
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#Democrats could take back 6 seats in #OhioHouse of Representatives
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#OhioDems argue lawmakers need to do more for #Ohioans ahead of State of the State
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Proposed #Ohiobill seeks to give #parents more control over their child’s #medicalrecords
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Indicted former Ohio utility chair Sam Randazzo reported dead by suicide

Sam Randazzo, Gov. Mike DeWine’s first pick to chair the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, has died by suicide, the Columbus Dispatch is …

ohiocapitaljournal.com - Marty Schladen

Akron Beacon Journal "Former Public Utilities Commission of #Ohio Chairman #SamRandazzo who was facing criminal charges over a bribery scandal, has died by suicide.

Randazzo, 74, of Columbus, was recently accused of accepting $4.3 million from #Akron-based #FirstEnergy to help the company with a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants and regulation that would have cost the company money. He was also accused of embezzling from his clients." #HB6

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/state/2024/04/09/ex-puco-chairman-sam-randazzo-accused-in-bribery-scheme-has-died/73265991007/

Ex-PUCO chairman Sam Randazzo accused in FirstEnergy bribery scheme has died

Former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo, who was facing criminal charges over a bribery scandal, has died by suicide.

Akron Beacon Journal
Further questions about DeWine administration's involvement in Ohio bribery scandal β€’ Ohio Capital Journal

A top aide of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and her former FirstEnergy lobbyist husband are on the witness list in the felony criminal trials of DeWine's appointed utility watchdog Sam Randazzo and two former FirstEnergy executives. Questions remain over what they knew about the company's connections to and bribery of Randazzo, and what was shared or wasn't shared with the governor.

Ohio Capital Journal

#MikeDeWine & his boys' club laugh at #Ohio & get their grift on

#SamRandazzo #FirstEnergy #OHGOP #HB6

Ex-First Energy executives, Ohio utility regulator charged by state in bailout and bribery scandal β€’ Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio law enforcement authorities on Monday filed numerous felony charges against two former First Energy executives and a former top utility regulator in what has been called the biggest bribery and money-laundering scandal in Ohio history.

Ohio Capital Journal

@cdarwin

#Ohio + utilites = grift

#HB6 #SamRandazzo #FirstEnergy #MikeDeWine #LarryHouseholder

First Energy, a lobbying group that happens to also run power plants

Ohio Supreme Court: Ex-regulator's assets can be frozen in connection with FirstEnergy case - Ohio Capital Journal

The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that assets owned by the former head of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio can be frozen in connection with a federal public corruption case.

Ohio Capital Journal
@Alarod_123 @Free_Press Yes look at the corruption in the #Ohio GOP statehouse--#HB6, #FirstEnergy #LarryHouseholder #NeilClark #SamRandazzo grifters one & all