COLUMBUS, Ohio—A federal appeals court has ruled that FirstEnergy does not have to release the results of two internal investigations into the utility’s involvement in the House Bill 6 bribery scandal.

The unsigned decision by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, overturns a lower-court decision ordering the release of the investigations’ findings. The decision was issued Friday.

Those findings, conducted by the law firms of Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs, probed into FirstEnergy’s payment of $60 million in bribe money to then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and his political network to secure and defend the passage of a 2019 energy law. Householder, a Perry County Republican, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for his role in the scanda

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