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Watchdog seeks more scrutiny of utility's spending in scheme

by Associated Press
| September 23, 2020 12:03 AM

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio's consumer watchdog has asked the state's regulator for public utilities to increase its scrutiny of FirstEnergy Corp.'s spending in what federal authorities say was a $60 million bribery scheme to obtain a $1 billion bailout for two struggling nuclear power plants owned at the time by a corporate subsidiary.

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