A second death, reportedly by suicide, in Ohio’s sprawling utility and racketeering scandal.
This one has a connection to someone we know well here across the border in Michigan. Randazzo was a friend and long time associate of Kevon Martis, a self-described “Senior Fellow” with the Washington DC based fossil fuel lobbying firm E&E Legal. In the recently uncovered video below, from 2017, Randazzo describes Martis as a “hero” who “inspired” him.
That was just before Randazzo’s appointment to the Public Utility Commission of Ohio, and a cascade of events leading to multiple indictments agains Randazzo, including accepting a 4 million dollar bribe for his help in saddling Ohio ratepayers with millions of dollars in bailout money for coal and nuclear plants in both Ohio and Indiana.
He was just about to testify. Who knows what we might have learned?
Occam’s razor suggests this is nothing more than it seems.
and I know nothing about the circumstances, but this reminds me of more than one movie.
Cleveland.com
Sam Randazzo was pronounced dead just before noon by the Columbus Division of Fire, according to a spokesman for the Franklin County Coroner’s office. He was found by police unresponsive, hanging by a rope in the rafters of a Columbus property. The coroner’s spokesman said it is a suspected death by suicide but will be confirmed in an autopsy.
His death is being investigated as a “suspected suicide,” the coroner’s office said. A ruling on the cause and manner of his death will be made following a scheduled autopsy.
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