Following the money: DeWine

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has multiple connections to FirstEnergy and FirstEnergy Solutions.

• Executives, former executives, lobbyists and PAC contributed to DeWine’s political campaign

• Funded nonprofit groups, including Partners for Progress and Generation Now

• Partners for Progress supported Alice DeWine’s campaign for county prosecutor

• Lobbied for government subsidies to help nuclear

power plants owned by its former subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions

• Fired top executives in October 2020

• Cooperating with multiple federal investigations.

DAN McCARTHY

• Served as lobbyist for FirstEnergy for a decade

• Led Partners for Progress, a 501c4 organization funded by FirstEnergy

• Appointed by DeWine as the governor’s top lobbyist

ALICE DEWINE

• Daughter of Gov. Mike DeWine

• Ran in and lost the 2020 GOP primary for Greene County prosecutor

• Says she has no knowledge of a nonprofit group that worked on her behalf

• FirstEnergy’s Partners for Progress gave that group $75,000 as well as $300,000 to another dark money group supporting her father.

GOV. MIKE DEWINE

•Met with FirstEnergy officials before and after his campaign for governor in 2018

• Asked FirstEnergy to help his daughter’s campaign for Greene County prosecutor in 2019

• Appointed people with FirstEnergy ties to key administration posts

• Signed House Bill 6 into law

SAM RANDAZZO

• Long-time attorney with expertise in energy policy

• FirstEnergy Solutions owed his consulting firm money, bankruptcy records show

• Provided input on House Bill 6

• Appointed chair of the Public Utilities Commission of

Ohio in Feb. 2019 by DeWine

• FBI searched his house in November 2020

• FirstEnergy told the Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2020 that it paid $4 million to end a consulting agreement with someone who was subsequently appointed a top Ohio utility regulator

• Randazzo resigned in November 2020