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Summit County jurors were unable to reach a verdict on whether former FirstEnergy executives committed bribery in what's been called the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history.WATCH:The jury had been deadlocked on whether former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and VP Mike Dowling bribed former Public Utilities Commission Chair Sam Randazzo with $4.
3 million to get beneficial rulings.The possibility of a mistrial was first made public when the jury wrote a note to Judge Susan Baker Ross on Monday afternoon, asking, “If we cannot agree on the charge of bribery, do we evaluate the other charges?”RELATED: What the jury doesn't know while deliberating the FirstEnergy corruption caseIf ruled a mistrial, the case can be retried by the prosecution.Along with likely facing another lengthy state trial, Jones and Dowling are both federally charged with racketeering. They have also been accused of spending $61 million to help create and pass House Bill 6. H.B. 6 was legislation to provide a billion-dollar bailout for the struggling company.The jury went into deliberation without key pieces of evidence that could bolster the prosecution's case, ones that weren't allowed to be brought up during the trial. Not only were they not told that FirstEnergy, as a company, already admitted to this bribery, but they weren't informed that former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is currently sitting in prison due to accepting FirstEnergy's bribes.RELATED: What the jury will be deciding in the FirstEnergy corruption trialFollow WEWS statehouse reporter Morgan Trau on Twitter and Facebook.
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