Frederique Van Der Wall titties as Ex-FirstEnergy officials finally rat out Ohio’s Biggest BRIBERY Scandal… Billion $$$ Nuclear Power Plant Subsidies

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Ex-FirstEnergy officials finally breaking silence on Ohio’s biggest bribery scandal

Dennis Chack, a former FirstEnergy executive, is sworn in to testify at a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio hearing about the House Bill 6 scandal in downtown Columbus on Friday, June 13, 2025.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s appointed utility regulator had a private conversation with FirstEnergy’s CEO just as House Bill 6 was being introduced in the Ohio General Assembly, according to testimony at a state regulatory hearing Friday.

The April 2019 meeting occurred at the Florida home of Sam Randazzo, then the newly appointed chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Randazzo and FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones spoke for about 10 minutes, after Jones asked other company executives to step outside.

This is according to testimony on Friday from Dennis Chack, FirstEnergy’s former senior vice president of branding and marketing.

Chack was the first of several former company executives and lobbyists scheduled to testify under immunity before PUCO over the next couple weeks in connection with the HB6 scandal —which provided more than $1 billion in subsidies to two nuclear power plants once owned by a FirstEnergy. While the testimony provided illuminating information about HB 6, Chack wasn’t particularly forthcoming.

Friday’s hearing comes nearly six years after Ohio lawmakers passed HB6, which led to prison sentences for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges. Prosecutors said they helped pass and defend HB6 using $60 million in bribes from FirstEnergy.

Chack denied having a role in the bribery scheme. He testified that his only meeting with Randazzo occurred during the 2019 Florida trip, when he, Jones, and others flew on the company jet to Randazzo’s second home.

At that meeting, Jones asked Randazzo to assist with HB6 and other regulatory matters. At Jones’ request, Chack and the others left the room, allowing Jones and Randazzo to speak privately for about 10 minutes, Chack said.

Randazzo, who helped draft some proposed wording for HB6, ended up overruling other PUCO commissioners and staff to help FirstEnergy with the policies Jones asked him to help with.

Meanwhile, Jones and senior vice president Mike Dowling are accused of paying Randazzo a $4.3 million bribe in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment.

Randazzo took his own life in 2024.

Prosecutors also allege Jones instructed Chack to lie to investigators and alter documents related to a $400,000 payment to a marketing firm owned by Cleveland businessman Tony George. That firm, in turn, funneled $500,000 in subcontracting work to a company owned by Chack’s daughter.

Chack was fired by FirstEnergy on October of 2020, a couple months after Householder’s arrest, for lying and backdating a company contract regarding the $400,000 payment

Friday’s testimony revealed FirstEnergy later had the disputed contract analyzed by an ink expert.

As a result,