FirstEnergy Agrees to Pay $230M Fine in Ohio Bribery Scandal

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FirstEnergy Corp. has agreed to pay a $230 million fine for its role in a major bribery scandal involving two Ohio reactors and the now-ousted former Ohio House speaker. The Akron-based corporation’s CEO Steven Strah and the acting U.S. attorney general for the Southern District of Ohio Vipal Patel signed a legal agreement Tuesday and announced it Thursday. Half the fine will go to the federal government and half will go to the state. An intermediary set up in Delaware by FirstEnergy called Partners For Progress is also forfeiting roughly $6.5 million still in its coffers.