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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana Statehouse Democrats are calling for for more investigations and wholesale restructurings amid an ethics flap enveloping the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
House Speaker Patrick Bauer said Thursday it's not enough for Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to ask his inspector general to investigate. Bauer and other Democrats in the House and Senate say they want investigations by prosecutors and also think the structure of the state ethics committee and the IURC need to be changed.
After learning a commission attorney discussed a job with Duke Energy while presiding over matters involving a $2.9 billion Duke Energy coal-gasification plant in southwestern Indiana, Daniels fired commission Chairman David Lott Hardy and ordered the IURC to reopen opinions on the project.
Duke, meanwhile, put both local CEO Mike Reed and the attorney, Scott Storms, on admininistrative leave in the wake of the state investigation.
Bauer said during a Fort Wayne news conference that the firing is just the beginning.
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