FirstEnergy Dumps Two Top Lawyers Amid Federal Bribery Probe (1)

FirstEnergy Corp. has parted ways with its two top in-house lawyers a week after terminating its former CEO in the wake of a federal corruption scandal.

Chief Legal Officer Robert Reffner and General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer Ebony Yeboah-Amankwah, who assumed their legal and compliance roles in May, separated from the Akron, Ohio-based utility Nov. 8, according to a FirstEnergy securities filing. The departures of Reffner and Yeboah-Amankwah follow the recent firing of CEO Charles Jones and two other senior executives at FirstEnergy.

FirstEnergy didn’t disclose a reason for the exit of both lawyers a little more than ...