An infamous energy company at the heart of a bribery scandal that shook the Ohio Republican Party will pay $20 million in a deal to avoid criminal charges, reported the Akron Beacon Journal. A business filing obtained by the paper shows that FirstEnergy will pay $19.5 million to the Ohio Attorney General’s office, and allocate an additional $500,000 for an independent consultant to review the company’s practices. FirstEnergy, which already paid a $230 million fine as part of the scandal, has admitted to bribing former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Public Utilities Commission of O…