Judge likely to delay sentencing engineering reactor-leak case

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Article published Friday, March 21, 2008
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Judge likely to delay sentencing engineering reactor-leak case

By TOM HENRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER

October’s split-decision verdict in the conspiracy case involving former Davis-Besse engineer David Geisen seemed to indicate the jury struggled in reaching a consensus about his role in FirstEnergy Corp.’s cover-up, U.S. District Judge David Katz said while addressing a federal prosecutor in a South Florida courtroom yesterday.

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Prosecutors have claimed Geisen, Mr. Cook, and a third accused co-conspirator, Andrew Siemaszko, of Spring, Texas, were part of a FirstEnergy Corp. cover-up in the fall of 2001 that kept the NRC from finding out that Davis-Besse’s old reactor head was about to burst.

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The NRC has said it relied on information FirstEnergy provided when it allowed Davis-Besse to continue operating until Feb. 16, 2002, six weeks later than some agency officials had wanted.

FirstEnergy has paid a record $33.5 million in fines for its corporate role in the scandal.