Bribery Scandals Taint Efforts to Save U.S. Nuclear Plants (1)

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Back-to-back bribery scandals involving utility giants in Ohio and Illinois over the last five days have givena black eye to efforts to prop up struggling U.S. nuclear plants.On Tuesday, federal officials arrested the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives on racketeeringcharges tied to a bailout of two nuclear plants owned by Energy Harbor Corp., a former FirstEnergy Corp.Subsidiary. Four days earlier, Exelon Corp.’s Commonwealth Edison unit agreed to pay $200 million toresolve a lobbying probe in Illinois, where nuclear plants also receive aid.