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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Settles With FirstEnergy for $20 Million
Amount dwarfed by scale of epic utility ripoff that featured more than $61 million in bribes and a $1.3 billion bailout
Marty Schladen, The Ohio Capital Journal
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Bernie Moreno Says Migrants “Destroyed” Ohio Cities But Won’t Clarify Which Cities or How
A Moreno campaign ad claims, “Brown and Biden won’t keep your family safe”
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Federal Regulator: Pharmacy Middlemen Appear to Be Raising Prices, Hurting Patients
The three biggest PBMs together are handling nearly 80% of prescription-drug transactions on behalf of insured Americans
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Increasing the Minimum Wage Will Save 4,000 Ohio Lives, Study Says
An effort to get a minimum wage hike on the ballot in November will now look to 2025
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Ohio Senator J.D. Vance Accused of Playing Putin’s Game
J.D. Vance is a leading critic of U.S. support for Ukraine
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Bernie Moreno Blasted Rivals Over HB6 Scandal. Now He’s Welcoming a Big Player’s Support
That’s Tony George, who had a long and lucrative relationship with FirstEnergy
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Ohio’s Leaders Blocked (Some) Foreign Money From Issue Campaigns. Advocates Call it a Dog-Whistle
“They’re making this about people who were born in other countries and adding on new categories of immigrants to be banned from donating money.”
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Ohio AG Yost Says He Won’t Explain His Role in Bailout Scandal Because of Other Cases
Those cases include some Yost filed himself
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Ohio GOP Leaders’ Push to Stop Foreign Money Does Nothing About Transparency
Dark money like what fueled bribery scandal could come from foreign sources
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Gov. Mike DeWine Signals Looming Scandal at Ohio Teachers’ Pension Fund
“This is a huge red flag, calling into question how STRS is operating and providing oversight,”
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Ohio Gov. DeWine Said He Didn’t Know of Millions in FirstEnergy Support. Is It Plausible?
“The notion that he was just this fumbling, naive grandpa who has no idea about seven-figure flows (supporting) his campaign is perhaps the single most far-fetched thing he’s ever said”
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DeWine Says Randazzo’s Ties to FirstEnergy Were Well Known, But the Evidence of This is Lacking
And there’s considerable evidence suggesting the opposite