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FILE – In this file photo dated May 27, 2004, Paul Tips (left) and Neil Clark pose in their Columbus, Ohio office. Clark, a longtime lobbyist from Ohio who pleaded not guilty to a comprehensive federal bribery investigation, was found dead on Monday, March 15, 2021. Clark pleaded not guilty in August 2020 for an alleged role in a $ 60 million cash recovery program from FirstEnergy companies to a network of dark money companies and then Ohio house spokesman Larry Householder in exchange for the US $ 1 billion nuclear bailout package passed. He first built his Senate work into a powerful bipartisan lobbying partnership with the late Tips, a former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party.