{"id":135408,"date":"2020-09-24T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=135408"},"modified":"2020-09-24T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:29:08","slug":"ohio-a-g-sues-to-block-hb-6-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/09\/24\/ohio-a-g-sues-to-block-hb-6-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio A-G sues to block HB 6 payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Wednesday the filing of litigation to block the payment of nuclear bailout money stemming from House Bill 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOhio laws should not be built on the basis of fraud, deceit, and intimidation,\u201d Yost said. \u201cGiven the corruption surrounding House Bill 6, it is proper to block these ill-gotten gains from filling the coffers of those under criminal indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The civil lawsuit seeks to prevent FirstEnergy from receiving proceeds of funds collected pursuant to the utility surcharge provided for in House Bill 6. A copy of the complaint is available on the Attorney General\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA5MjMuMjc2MjgwNDEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm9oaW9hdHRvcm5leWdlbmVyYWwuZ292L0ZpbGVzL0JyaWVmaW5nLVJvb20vTmV3cy1SZWxlYXNlcy9TdGF0ZS1leC1yZWwtWW9zdC12LUZpcnN0RW5lcmd5LWV0LWFsLUNvbXBsYWludC1BbC5hc3B4In0.J2zLNCMUUdBrz0xJV_hUF64pITX3nLCv3BVRyRY-EbY\/s\/195549829\/br\/85854699471-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yost\u2019s remarks on the issue during a media availability held today are archived&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA5MjMuMjc2MjgwNDEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3lvdXR1LmJlL19ULVFmRExEZHFNP3Q9MjQwIn0.uVvX5LUHCtN5n8es635NHgL9nieDFRlxG2eFun0Tr3c\/s\/195549829\/br\/85854699471-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Wednesday the filing of litigation to block the payment of nuclear bailout money stemming from House Bill 6. \u201cOhio laws should not be built on the basis of fraud, deceit, and intimidation,\u201d Yost said. \u201cGiven the corruption surrounding House Bill 6, it is proper to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 12:08:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}