A point out regulator granted a request from FirstEnergy Corp., purportedly created at the best of federal prosecutors investigating the firm’s lobbying methods, to reduce off a point out watchdog agency’s deposition of the firm’s former leading ethics officer final 7 days. The Akron-dependent utility firm last summer time admitted to bribing two condition officials with about $64 million in exchange for favorable legislative and regulatory cure. FirstEnergy is now cooperating with the US Department of Justice’s legal investigation into former GOP Property Speaker Larry Householder and alleged conspirators. Householder has pleaded not guilty and waits demo early up coming 12 months. Condition and federal regulators, in the meantime, have…