Jury deadlocked in FirstEnergy bribery trial as Yost vows to retry case: Capitol Letter
By Mary Frances Mcgowan
Published on April 1, 2026.
The high-profile bribery trial of two former FirstEnergy executives, Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling, ended with a hung jury in which they were accused of bribing a state regulator who helped draft House Bill 6 in 2019. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has requested overseas military absentee ballots for the May primary, where he is deployed with the Ohio Army National Guard. The Supreme Court's decision against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ youth makes it even more difficult for Ohio to outlaw the practice in Ohio, according to Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio. The $1.9 billion reappropriations bill signed by Gov. Mike DeWine includes $12.5 million to partially offset federal funding cuts to county food-stamp programs, but it controversially only offers a fraction of what large, urban counties need, raising concerns that Ohio could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in additional SNAP funding. Meanwhile, former Democratic state Rep. Brandon Kovach has been indicted on felony charges for defrauding an unnamed Akron man out of $410,000.
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