Ohio FirstEnergy Indictments Driven by Coming Charging Deadlines

In the second half of 2022, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost “began to become concerned about the passage of time.”

How he spent the next year and a half—bringing charges in what is widely described as the largest corruption case in state history—could provide a launching pad for his political future.

By that point, had been two years since federal prosecutors charged former state House Speaker Larry Householder (R) and four others over tens of millions in bribes to ram through a $1.3 billion bailout of two struggling nuclear power plants that FirstEnergy Corp. owned at the time.

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