When a court blocked fees for Ohio's $1 billion nuclear bailout last month, another charge slipped through.
Now, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost wants to halt a decoupling fee on Akron-based FirstEnergy customers' bills that will collect $102 million this year "for the sole purpose of padding FirstEnergy’s bottom-line," state attorneys wrote in a Wednesday filing.
The move comes after former Speaker Larry Householder and four others were arrested in July and accused of using nearly $61 million in bribes from companies like FirstEnergy to pass the nuclear subsidies in House Bill 6 and defend the law against a ballot effort to block it.
"FirstEnergy’s greed was the heart and soul of this corrupt enterprise. It should not be permitted to profit therefrom," according to the court filing. Yost's team argued the fee cannot be refunded so a court order is needed to block it.
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