The FBI this morning searched the Columbus home of the chair of the agency that regulates Ohio utilities.
FBI agents carried boxes out of the home of Public Utilities Commission chair Sam Randazzo. An FBI spokesman says the raid was related to a sealed federal search warrant, and there were no arrests and none expected.
While it鈥檚 unclear why Randazzo鈥檚 home was searched, the PUCO is now auditing , the electric utility thought to be at the center of that federal prosecutors say involved Republican former House Speaker Larry Householder and four others.
Before heading the PUCO, Randazzo was , representing large energy users such as Marathon Gas and McDonald鈥檚 franchises.
But Randazzo said that he never did legal work or lobbied for a utility that's regulated by the PUCO.
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