INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ A court decision dismissing ethics charges against former Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Chairman David Lott Hardy will stand.
Spokesman Bryan Corbin said Thursday that the Indiana attorney general's office has determined that an appeal to the state Supreme Court “is likely unwinnable.''
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled April 29 that state ethics law in effect at the time Hardy was indicted in 2011 only covered criminal behavior and did not apply to administrative misconduct such as that Hardy was accused of.
The crux of the argument was whether Hardy should be charged with felony misconduct when he did not commit a crime.
Hardy was fired by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels as part of an ethics scandal that eventually also cost three Duke Energy officials their jobs.
