More than five years after FBI agents raided the home of then-Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo, a Summit County judge dispatched a jury Tuesday to weigh the fate of the two FirstEnergy Corp. executives accused of paying him off with $4.3 million.
The alleged offenses include racketeering, bribery, forgery, telecommunications fraud, tampering with records, and conspiracy. But beneath them all is one core question.
Did ex-CEO Chuck Jones, 70, and ex-senior vice president of external affairs Mike Dowling, 61, pay Randazzo a bribe on Jan. 2, 2019 when they wired his shell company $4,333,333?…