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Ohio utility regulators fined FirstEnergy $250 million for its role in a sweeping bribery scheme.

The scheme involved bribing former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to pass a bailout for two nuclear plants.

FirstEnergy has previously paid hundreds of millions in other state and federal penalties related to the scandal.

More than five years after FBI agents arrested one of Ohio's top politicians for a sweeping bribery scheme , state utility regulators imposed $250.7 million in fines and forfeitures on Akron-based FirstEnergy.

On Nov. 19, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio found that FirstEnergy violated multiple rules and misused ratepayer money, some of which was related to House Bill 6.

The bill, adopted in July 2019, would've required 4.5 million Ohi

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