A key takeaway from FERC audit of FirstEnergy: What started off as a "$60 million bribery scandal" is now more like a $133 million scandal. Let's breakdown the money in a thread.
FERC's audit team initially found FirstEnergy improperly included $10.9 million spent on lobbying in accounts reserved for expenses that are "presumptively recoverable" from ratepayers documentcloud.org/documents/2103… 
Then FirstEnergy, after it signed an agreement with federal prosecutors, revealed additional political payments to FERC's audit team, including $22.8 million paid to two for-profit entities associated with former PUCO chairman Samuel Randazzo documentcloud.org/documents/2119…
FirstEnergy also disclosed to auditors that it paid a total of $70.9 to groups connected to the #HB6 bribery scandal, including Generation Now, Partners for Progress, and Hardworking Ohioans
FirstEnergy disclosed another $28.8 million in payments to 16 entities associated with an unnamed individual documentcloud.org/documents/2119… Based on a PUCO audit from last year, this individual may be Tony George, a politically influential businessman cleveland.com/politics/2021/…
It's worth noting that FirstEnergy still hasn't explained why payments to entities associated with Tony George became the subject of its internal investigation re: the criminal case against former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder
Update: Okay, maybe it’s more than $133 million
https://twitter.com/cleantechfacts/status/1489713262363131908
And the FERC audit doesn’t even account for most of payments to outside firms employed by FirstEnergy Solutions due to jurisdictional limits on FERC’s authority
https://twitter.com/cleantechfacts/status/1487081715533328384
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