Posted on 07/27/2020 7:12:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A FirstEnergy customer on Monday filed what could become a class-action lawsuit in an effort to make the electricity company refund customers for rate hikes that resulted from a billion-dollar nuclear bailout now at the center of a corruption scandal.
The lawsuit filed by Jacob Smith, a North Royalton homeowner, accuses the Akron-based utility of committing civil racketeering by bribing law Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to introduce House Bill 6 and then illegally bankrolling a dark-money campaign to pressure legislators into supporting the bill and fending off a ballot initiative to repeal it.
The goal of the scheme was to deprive ratepayers of money through the law that required them to pay a monthly surcharge on power the company delivered, the lawsuit says...
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Go kill ‘em.
We have a similar situation here in Illinois.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2020/7/24/21337436/comed-michael-madigan-chicago-politics-unofficial-rules
Perhaps a swarm of hungry attorneys will make a similar attempt here?... NEVER HAPPEN.
Where do I sign up?
Like vultures on roadkill.
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