Lawyers disagreed sharply in arguments before the Ohio Supreme Court over whether $8 million dollars in assets, belonging to the state’s former top utility regulator…should have been frozen after he was caught up in a sweeping Statehouse bribery investigation. The state’s attorney told justices that Sam Randazzo was spending down criminal proceeds when Republican Attorney General Dave Yost moved in to freeze his assets. All this…after Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. has admitted to paying Randazzo in exchange for favorable treatment just before he took the helm of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
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