Ohio AG freezes former PUCO chair’s assets in FirstEnergy probe

CLEVELAND — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost told 3News today that his office filed legal papers to garnish assets of ex-Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Sam Randazzo. Yost earlier filed a lawsuit to force Randazzo to return a $4.3 million he received from FirstEnergy Corp. The company recently admitted the payment to Randazzo was bribe.

 “One thing we did yesterday that has not been reported yet is we went to court to freeze accounts of Sam Randazzo, the former PUCO chairman who FirstEnergy has admitted paid a $4 million bribe to,” Yost told 3News in an exclusive interview. “We filed that today – the garnishment — and so far frozen a little over $300,000. We are still working through the bank accounts and looking for other assets. But this is the first action to freeze assets that flowed out of this corrupt deal.”

You can watch comments from Yost in the player below:

Breaking: Ohio AG Dave Yost tells 3News he filed legal action to freeze personal assets of ex-Public Utilities Commish Chair Sam Randazzo, related to money he received in FirstEnergy bribe scandal. Yost said he’s tied up $300,000 & after more. Comments on https://t.co/Wm4yfQ8QKw

— mark naymik (@marknaymik) August 12, 2021