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PG&E: Feds allege utility violated terms of its criminal probation in the San Bruno explosion, judge sets hearing



SAN FRANCISCO — In another blow to embattled PG&E, federal
officials say the utility may have violated the terms of its probation
imposed after the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion by failing to
reveal that it was being investigated for causing a fire and settling a
lawsuit over that and two other blazes.


Sometime in August 2004 while a member of Pack 36 Danville I explained to Judge Joel Golub my F-250 exploded on NB-680, then a month later I was severely beaten by Gary Vinson Collins, amazingly a building inspector for the Town of Danville.






Judge William Alsup ordered its lawyers to appear in court Jan. 30 to
answer to allegations filed by a federal probation officer in U.S.
District Court documents Wednesday.
Federal Probation Officer Jennifer Hutchings wrote in the filing that
the company did not report to its probation officer that it reached a
$1.5 million settlement with Butte County in October for its role in
causing three 2017 fires. It also did not report that it was being
criminally investigated by the District Attorney in one of those
blazes, dubbed the Honey Fire, for failure to properly trim trees near
its power lines. The criminal investigation was dropped and no charges
were filed.
“At no time did Pacific Gas and Electric Company report this
investigation by the Butte County District Attorney’s Office to the
probation office,” Hutchings wrote.
Alsup oversees the company’s criminal probation following its
conviction on six felonies related to the 2010 San Bruno explosion
killed eight people. In addition to fines and other penalties, in 2017,
then-U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson placed the utility on five
years of probation, during which time it was ordered not to “commit
another federal, state, or local crime.”
In a separate filing Wednesday, Alsup proposed that he change
PG&E’s probation to force changes aimed at reducing “to zero the
number of wildfires caused by PG&E in 2019.”
“In light of PG&E’s history of falsification of inspection reports,
PG&E shall, between now and the 2019 Wildfire Season, re-inspect
all of its electrical grid and remove or trim all trees that could fall
onto its power lines, poles or equipment in high-wind conditions,” the
judge wrote.
He also said the company has to monitor its grid and wind conditions
“and may supply electricity only through those parts of its electrical
grid it has determined to be safe under the wind conditions then
prevailing.”
In a statement issued late Wednesday a PG&E spokesman, James
Noonan, said, “We are aware of Judge Alsup’s orders and are currently
reviewing. We are committed to complying with all rules and regulations
that apply to our work.”

In recent days, PG&E has said it is considering selling off its gas
division and replacing members of its board of directors as it
struggles with liabilities from the 2017 North Bay fire and the Camp
Fire in November that killed 86 people and devastated the Town of
Paradise. The price of its stock plummeted this week and company is
pondering a bankruptcy filing.
It has reported in regulatory findings that it is vastly underinsured
for the estimated $14 billion in liabilities it is facing over recent
wildfires.
A lawyer involved in the San Bruno case said aid she was both
surprised, but also not surprised that PG&E was found to not report
properly.
“It seems irresponsible for PG&E to not report any possible
violation of probation,” she said. “You’d think they’d be under high
alert … It would be the first thing a responsible corporation would
do,” said Attorney Britt Strottman, who represented the city of San
Bruno after the deadly explosion.
She said the judge should reopen the utility’s punishment.
“They probably should be re-sentenced,” said Strottman, a former San
Mateo prosecutor. “That might be the only way they learn their lesson.
A slap on the wrist will not change the culture of PG&E.”


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PG&E board must be ousted amid wildfire woes: big investor

PG&E board must be ousted amid wildfire woes: big investor

Big investor says entire PG&E must be fired after years of fatal disasters


PG&E’s entire board of directors should be ousted and replaced in the wake of what a big investor describes as a series of failures and blunders that have caused fatal disasters that stretch back nearly a decade, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.
Among the catastrophes that investor Blue Mountain Capital Management cited: a fatal explosion in San Bruno in 2010, falsification of gas pipeline records over several years from 2012 through 2017, a lethal series of infernos in the North Bay Wine Country and nearby regions in October 2017 and a deadly wildfire in Butte County that essentially destroyed the town of Paradise in November 2018.
“The current PG&E board has not only failed the company and its shareholders, it has failed its customers, it has failed its employees and, it has failed the people of California,” Blue Mountain stated in an open letter to PG&E’s shareholders.
The series of failures presided over by the board of directors, according to Blue Mountain Capital, has severely harmed PG&E.
“The company has lost the public’s trust, and it has severely damaged its relationship with regulators and elected officials,” Blue Mountain Capital stated.
The investment firm noted that roughly half of the current directors were on the board before and after a fatal explosion that PG&E caused in September 2010 — nearly a decade ago — that killed eight and destroyed a San Bruno neighborhood.
In 2015, the state Public Utilities Commission imposed a $1.6 billion penalty on PG&E for causing the explosion, the largest financial punishment ever levied on an American utility.
In 2016, PG&E became a felon when a federal jury convicted the company of crimes it committed before and after the San Bruno explosion.
Blue Mountain became an activist shareholder after it became apparent that PG&E intended to file for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By some estimates, PG&E’s mountain of debts and wildfire-related liabilities could total $30 billion.
Blue Mountain believes PG&E actually isn’t insolvent and that state lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the PUC should work to seek solutions besides bankruptcy. Blue Mountain’s approach includes what some critics would describe as a bailout of PG&E by state taxpayers and the company’s customers.
“We urge you to exercise your rights and duties as owners” and participate in an election that could result in a completely new board of directors, Blue Mountain stated in its letter. “It is time for shareholders to step up.”
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PG&E: Feds allege utility violated terms of its criminal probation




PG&E: Feds allege utility violated terms of its criminal probation

Rest assured it was a inside job leading to other deadly explosions

PG&E: Feds allege utility violated terms of its criminal probation in the San Bruno explosion, judge sets hearing

SAN FRANCISCO — In another blow to embattled PG&E, federal
officials say the utility may have violated the terms of its probation
imposed after the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion by failing to
reveal that it was being investigated for causing a fire and settling a
lawsuit over that and two other blazes.
Judge William Alsup ordered its lawyers to appear in court Jan. 30 to
answer to allegations filed by a federal probation officer in U.S.
District Court documents Wednesday.
Federal Probation Officer Jennifer Hutchings wrote in the filing that
the company did not report to its probation officer that it reached a
$1.5 million settlement with Butte County in October for its role in
causing three 2017 fires. It also did not report that it was being
criminally investigated by the District Attorney in one of those
blazes, dubbed the Honey Fire, for failure to properly trim trees near
its power lines. The criminal investigation was dropped and no charges
were filed.
“At no time did Pacific Gas and Electric Company report this
investigation by the Butte County District Attorney’s Office to the
probation office,” Hutchings wrote.
Alsup oversees the company’s criminal probation following its
conviction on six felonies related to the 2010 San Bruno explosion
killed eight people. In addition to fines and other penalties, in 2017,
then-U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson placed the utility on five
years of probation, during which time it was ordered not to “commit
another federal, state, or local crime.”
In a separate filing Wednesday, Alsup proposed that he change
PG&E’s probation to force changes aimed at reducing “to zero the
number of wildfires caused by PG&E in 2019.”
“In light of PG&E’s history of falsification of inspection reports,
PG&E shall, between now and the 2019 Wildfire Season, re-inspect
all of its electrical grid and remove or trim all trees that could fall
onto its power lines, poles or equipment in high-wind conditions,” the
judge wrote.
He also said the company has to monitor its grid and wind conditions
“and may supply electricity only through those parts of its electrical
grid it has determined to be safe under the wind conditions then
prevailing.”
In a statement issued late Wednesday a PG&E spokesman, James
Noonan, said, “We are aware of Judge Alsup’s orders and are currently
reviewing. We are committed to complying with all rules and regulations
that apply to our work.”
In recent days, PG&E has said it is considering selling off its gas
division and replacing members of its board of directors as it
struggles with liabilities from the 2017 North Bay fire and the Camp
Fire in November that killed 86 people and devastated the Town of
Paradise. The price of its stock plummeted this week and company is
pondering a bankruptcy filing.
It has reported in regulatory findings that it is vastly underinsured
for the estimated $14 billion in liabilities it is facing over recent
wildfires.
A lawyer involved in the San Bruno case said aid she was both
surprised, but also not surprised that PG&E was found to not report
properly.
“It seems irresponsible for PG&E to not report any possible
violation of probation,” she said. “You’d think they’d be under high
alert … It would be the first thing a responsible corporation would
do,” said Attorney Britt Strottman, who represented the city of San
Bruno after the deadly explosion.
She said the judge should reopen the utility’s punishment.
“They probably should be re-sentenced,” said Strottman, a former San
Mateo prosecutor. “That might be the only way they learn their lesson.
A slap on the wrist will not change the culture of PG&E.”





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Prosecutors: Fires may mean PG&E violated criminal sentence

Prosecutors: Fires may mean PG&E violated criminal sentence

Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press
Updated 2:33 pm PST, Monday, December 31, 2018




Photo: Noah Berger, AP

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FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, file aerial photo shows the remains of residences leveled by the wildfire in Paradise, Calif. California's attorney general has told a federal judge it's possible Pacific ... more

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California utility's role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal sentence in a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people, federal prosecutors said Monday.

In a court filing, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco said state investigations blamed Pacific Gas & Electric power lines for some fires in October 2017. Investigators also found evidence that PG&E violated state law.

"These facts, specifically if PG&E started a wildfire by reckless operation or maintenance of its power lines, may serve as a basis for the court to find that the defendant corporation violated" terms of its probation, prosecutors said.

A U.S. judge in 2017 put PG&E on five years of probation following its conviction on pipeline safety charges stemming from an explosion of one of its pipelines in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Prosecutors' filing came after a judge overseeing the pipeline case asked PG&E to explain any role it may have played in a massive wildfire last month that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise and killed at least 86 people.

Investigators have not determined the cause of the wildfire that began Nov. 8, but speculation has centered on PG&E, which reported an outage around the time and place that the fire ignited.

The judge could impose new requirements on the utility if it's found to have violated its probation in the pipeline case. The company already has been ordered to pay a $3 million fine, run television commercials publicizing its convictions and have an independent monitor oversee the safety of its gas pipeline system.

PG&E said it is focused on assessing infrastructure to further improve safety and help protect customers from the "ever increasing" threat of wildfires.

"We are committed to working together with our state and community partners and across all sectors and disciplines to develop comprehensive safety solutions that provide safe, reliable gas and electric service to our customers in the future," the utility said in a statement.

A judge could find PG&E violated terms of its probation that banned it from committing another crime and requiring that it implement an effective compliance and ethics program, prosecutors said in documents Monday.

The California attorney general told the judge Friday that PG&E could face charges as serious as involuntary manslaughter or murder if investigators determine that reckless operation or maintenance of power equipment caused any recent wildfires in the state.

The court filings came after Judge William Alsup said last month that he wanted to know whether any requirements in the utility's criminal sentence "might be implicated" if PG&E equipment ignited a wildfire and what steps an independent monitor has taken to improve safety and reporting on power lines and fires.

Prosecutors said they did not yet have "sufficient information" about any role PG&E may have played in the Paradise fire or other fires this year to determine if the utility may have violated its probation.

They said that after wildfires in 2017, the monitor looked at the adequacy of PG&E's vegetation management plan and how it maintains and inspects electric poles and other equipment. They did not elaborate on any possible findings of that review.
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California prosecutors: PG&E could face manslaughter charges — in theory

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

California prosecutors: PG&E could face manslaughter charges — in theory


Manslaughter and murder are among the crimes Pacific Gas and Electric Co. could have committed under California law if its reckless operation of power lines is found to have sparked any recent deadly wildfire, according to the state’s top prosecutor.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and his deputies described to a federal judge Friday a range of possible consequences PG&E could face at the state level, depending on the utility’s “mental state,” if it is deemed responsible for wildfires that have ravaged the state.
The potential crimes vary widely, from minor offenses related to vegetation and power lines to felonies or misdemeanors about causing fires or even implied-malice murder and involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said.
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Becerra’s office laid out the possibilities in a brief to U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is considering how the wildfires could affect PG&E’s probation from a criminal case born out of the aftermath to the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
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The Lies of PG&E, Defense Team

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Who is the PG&E Witness

Who is the PG&E Witness?

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