Emails Indicate FirstEnergy Paid $300k to a Dark Money Org Tied to Senate President

Additional details continue to emerge about the extent of FirstEnergy’s strategic monetary contributions during the time period that House Bill 6 was being debated by the legislature. It has been discovered that in spring 2019, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit funded and controlled by FirstEnergy secretly paid $300,000 to a dark money nonprofit a lobbyist associated with now-Senate President Matt Huffman.

Huffman’s spokesman has stated that he has never created, controlled, or coordinated any 501(c)(4). 4/23/2024