AKRON – A jury could not reach a consensus on whether two former FirstEnergy executives paid a $4.3 million bribe, yielding a mistrial Tuesday.
For a while after closing arguments, the jury forewoman, Jackie Steward, couldn’t make up her mind either. But after days in seclusion, reviewing more than 600 pieces of evidence and weighing six weeks of testimony, she said the patterns became unmissable.
It seemed like “everything” FirstEnergy did went against basic, acceptable business practices, she said…