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Take Ohio. A few years back, a
big utility there, First

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Energy, was caught up in this
massive scandal. Ohio House

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Speaker Larry Householder and
four others have been charged

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with bracketeering accused by
the feds of funneling millions

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from the energy company into a
501 C 4 Dark Money Group called

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Generation Now. Okay, first,
Generation Now sounds like a

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failed nineties boy band whose
members are all now spokesman

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for different cryptocurrency
companies but very basically,

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what happened there is that
First Energy funneled $60

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million dollars to the speaker
of the Ohio House to get him to

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pass a bill HB six that has
been called the worst energy

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bill of the twenty-1st century.
Now, I have to tell you, the

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House Speaker in question
denies wrongdoing and is still

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a waiting trial but what is
very clear is that First Energy

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was working extremely hard to
influence the decision-making

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process. They actually paid the
chairman of the state's utility

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commission, $22 million dollars
in consulting fees in the years

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directly proceeding him
becoming their regulator and

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while he denies doing anything
improper, I will point out that

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on the very day the bill passed
first energy CEO wrote to him

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saying and I quote HB six ****
anybody who ain't us which is

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very cool right and just so you
know the man who wrote that is

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this guy who looks like he's
left lengthy reviews for

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multiple gas grills on Home
Depot. com this man wrote the

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words **** anybody who ain't us
this old white man take those

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precise words with his old
white fingers so look recap,

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our utility system largely
consist of for profit companies

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with monopolies over an
essential service building as

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much **** as they possibly can
so they can pass the cost along

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to you on your electric bill.
Just Google your utility

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company right now and the word
scandal and chances are they've

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got into some major trouble.