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IN BRIEF: PG&E wants Munger Tolles & Olson to take on Kincade Fire matters

PG&E Corp is seeking a court order allowing Munger Tolles & Olson to handle any legal fallout the bankrupt power producer may face from the massive Kincade Fire currently burning in California.

Munger represents PG&E before regulators and with respect to federal, state and local laws and rules related to wildfire liabilities, work that should include matters that may arise from the Kincade Fire, the company said in an application to amend the law firm’s retention filed on Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco.

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BBKLAW.COM Howard Golub reporting directly to PG&E CEO Stan Skinner father Captain Skinner orders subordinates to arrest PG&E Programmer Pete Bennett

Too many dead club

Created by Pete Bennett during 2014 as with each passing year the painful observation persons near were being killed

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Howard Golub

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HGOLUB@BBKLAW.COM

Tel: (925) 977-3323

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Howard is a recognized leader among energy law practitioners in California.
 
Built on a foundation of decades of experience with both the law and with key decision-makers, Howard consistently develops innovative solutions delivering outstanding results for his clients.
 
From 1986 to 1994 he was vice president and general counsel of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Howard Golub provides services to a wide range of clients in the energy industry, including utilities, large consumers, public agencies, independent power producers, and developers of technologies for the production of energy.

Howard’s work includes strategic planning, merger and acquisition, utility system creation, franchise agreements, energy project development, contract negotiation and formulation, contract restructuring and alternative dispute resolution. He makes appearances before a variety of federal and state agencies.

Howard focuses on clients’ objectives, primarily in the areas of developing new opportunities, improving their competitiveness and defending existing rights through an integrated regulatory-transactional approach. For example, he created a strategy that allowed one client to develop an independent and fully functioning electric distribution enterprise, taking less than six months from conception to operation — an unprecedented and cost-effective solution. Another client was facing financial ruin until Howard developed a regulatory strategy to cure several years of poor decisions by prior management. A third client was saved $350 million in utility charges.

The energy industry, particularly in California, has been in a state of change for some years and that process will continue — particularly in the areas of price structures, infrastructure development, integration of environmental mandates, transmission access, competition, energy efficiency, renewable energy development, rate design and development of new market entrants. These changes represent significant opportunity for astute market participants.

Representative matters include:

  • Creation of new utility systems and counseling developing systems
  • Community choice aggregation
  • Feasibility studies involving legal, regulatory, operational and financial issues
  • Rulemaking proceedings
  • Rate-setting and rate design proceedings
  • Discounted power rates
  • Utility exit fees
  • Utility tariff interpretation and modification
  • Power sales agreements, both for sellers and buyers
  • Interconnection agreements and transmission access agreements
  • Natural gas supply agreements
  • Development of renewable resource power projects
  • Hydroelectric licensing
  • Certificates of public convenience and necessity
  • Franchise agreements
  • Utility rights-of-way
  • Environmental compliance


From 1986 to 1994 Howard was vice president and general counsel of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, one of the largest energy utility companies in the United States. He reported directly to the Board of Directors and to the chief executive officer and served on the company’s Management Committee consisting of the CEO and 10 other senior officers. As chief legal officer of the company, he had extensive experience with all aspects of energy law – regulation, legislation, commercial transactional and litigation. He was also PG&E’s lead environmental officer, responsible for environmental policy and for auditing environmental compliance. He formulated and implemented a proactive environmental program which increased competitiveness and earnings, was strongly endorsed by national environmental leaders, and personally awarded the nation’s highest environmental medal by the President of the United States.

Prior to entering private practice, Howard was an assistant district attorney for New York County (1968-1969) and an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Navy (1969-1973) where he tried numerous courts-martial and later served as a U.S. Military Judge. After leaving active duty, Howard remained in the Naval Reserves, rising to the rank of captain.
 
Howard is admitted to numerous federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D.
  • Hunter College, B.A. cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa)
  • Naval War College: Senior Reserve Officer Course
  • MIT Sloan School of Management: Executive Management Program for General Counsel.


Admissions

  • California
  • New York
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Hugh Smith - PG&E High Performance Engineer Jul 2010 - Jan 2015 4 years 7 months

The PG&Eamp;E High Performance Engineer

Fluid Dynamics

The key reason why the San Bruno Explosion IS not an accident leads to a pumping station in Milipitas. Earlier in the late afternoon leads a power wall change out that began at 5:00 PM linked to the lack of backup generators in place. The NTSB stated this in their first video covereing the San Bruno Explosion. The pumps were long enough for the LNG to decompress then when the pumps started the resulting explosion was magnified with air (oxegen, gas) become air bomb. Basically it was a K-Boom Tragedy.

 

Hugh Smith

Hugh Smith

Big Data Consultant at Gedanken High Performance Computing

San Francisco Bay Area500+ connections

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Specialties: Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis and Tuning, Database Optimization, Data Mining

Experience

Big Data Consultant
Gedanken High Performance Computing
Capacity Planning Consultant
GE Digital
Senior Performance Engineer
PG&E
Consultant-Performance
Chevron
Managing Consultant
BEC Consultants
Founder
Altopuente Systems International
Performance Engineer
State Compensation Insurance Fund
Education

  •  - Present 5 years 9 months

    Pleasant Hill, California

  •  - less than a year

  •  - 4 years 7 months

  •  - 2 years

  •  - 20 years 8 months

    San Francisco Bay Area

  •  - 8 years

  •  - 9 years

  • Harvard University

    Completed 6 graduate level classes in Software Engineering

  • UC San Diego

    UC San Diego

    Completed Certificate program in Data Mining

  • UC Santa Cruz

    Bioinformatics Classes

  • San Jose State University

    San Jose State University

    Graduate level classes in Math and Computer Science

  • UC Berkeley

    UC Berkeley

    Telecommunications Engineering

  • Virginia Tech

    BSIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research

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Father Captain Steve Skinner arresting PG&E Witness Pete Bennett Pacific Gas & Electric Taps Stanley Skinner as New CEO

Captain Skinner
Captain Steve Skinner
Walnut Creek Police Department
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PG&E CEO Stan Skinner

Former CEO of PG&E is also the father of former Officer/Sgt/Lieutenant/Captain Steve Skinner.


This is the same officer that attempted many times to arrest founder of PG&am;E Witness and former PG&E Programmer Pete Bennett.

Bennett and PG&E

Former Programmer hired to work on projects specific to the San Bruno Explosion and orders/ruling issued by CPUC.

 
Pacific Gas & Electric Taps Stanley Skinner as New CEO



JUNE 3, 1994

12 AM
Pacific Gas  &Electric Co. said Thursday that Stanley Skinner, the company’s president and chief operating officer, will succeed Richard Clarke as chief executive on July 1.
Clarke, 64, will remain chairman of the utility until June 1, 1995, when PG&E; bylaws mandate his retirement. He may remain on the board as a director until age 70.
The company also announced that Robert Glynn Jr., currently a senior vice president and general manager for customer energy services, will become executive vice president on July 1.
Executive Vice President Jerry McLeod, 58, who led the company through the restructuring of its natural gas business during the past five years, will leave PG&E; “to pursue other interests,” the company said.
Clarke said he is accelerating the company’s management succession plan by a year because “the team that will be leading PG&E; in the future should be making decisions that will shape that future.”
He predicted that the next few years will bring greater change to PG&E; than the last 10 to 15 years because of proposed restructuring of electric services in California.
Clarke became chairman and chief executive of the San Francisco-based utility in 1986. Skinner, 56, has been president and chief operating officer since 1991.
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Lawrence Kudlow, a former top Wall Street economist and adviser to former President Ronald Reagan, has joined Montgomery Securities as a consultant, the company said.
The former chief economist and senior managing director of Bear, Stearns  & Co. will give presentations to clients, work with Montgomery’s director of research and perform other duties on a part-time basis.
However, he will not be based in San Francisco, where the company is headquartered.
Kudlow, 46, left Bear Stearns in March.
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Edward C. Field has been appointed president of Pacific-Sierra Research, an employee-owned scientific research firm headquartered in Santa Monica.
Field, who has been with Pacific-Sierra since 1972, most recently served as vice president of science and technology. Field succeeds Frank J. Thomas, who will continue as chairman.
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Noel Feldman has joined Trust Company of the West as senior vice president of marketing in the firm’s Los Angeles headquarters. His primary responsibility will be to coordinate TCW’s relationships with investment consulting firms.
For the past 17 years, Feldman has served as an investment consultant with Hewitt Associates.
San Diego-based Telios Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced the appointment of Donald W. Grimm, 52, as its president and chief executive effective June 15.
Grimm brings 23 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnology management experience to Telios. Grimm was previously president and chief executive of Hybritech.
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Attempted Murder via 1995 Ford SUV Serviced by Walnut Creek Ford

Rewritten Text Pending update Original Text When my Van was repossessed in 2009 it was dumped for $750, my losses over $10,000 - the bank said the ABS System appeared to have been vandalized. Just like my Ford Explorer ABS failure in 2004.

While traveling 680 at about 70mph, the right front tire locked sending me up on two wheels. That was about a month after I was served with my divorce papers.
My story is real - Tanabe



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Abuse of Authority Under Color of Law - SUKEY LEWIS, KQED NEWS, NADINE SEBAI CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO, ALEX EMSLIE, KQED NEWS and THOMAS PEELE









By SUKEY LEWIS, KQED NEWS, NADINE SEBAI CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO, ALEX EMSLIE, KQED NEWS and THOMAS PEELE | tpeele@bayareanewsgroup.com | KQED News


PUBLISHED: January 29, 2019 at 5:00 am | UPDATED: January 29, 2019 at 8:37 am


RIO VISTA — Katheryn Jenks, a slight 56-year-old woman, called 911 around 3 a.m. on a Sunday in September to report her car alarm going off. Within minutes, she was handcuffed and sitting in the back of a Rio Vista police car, bleeding from a deep, gaping wound on her right forearm where a police dog bit her.

In August 2017, Rio Vista police entered another home and an officer quickly put a man who lived there in a potentially deadly chokehold. “Don’t kill me,” the man yelled after the officer threw him to the ground.

That officer, John Collondrez, was fired. Natalie Rafferty, the officer and K-9 handler who ordered Jenks’ arrest, has been notified by the department that she, too, will be terminated, according to documents released to the Bay Area News Group and KQED under a new state law that unseals some internal investigations and police disciplinary records.

The records released by Rio Vista are among the first in the state to show officers disciplined for violating use-of-force rules and for dishonesty. Although it remains to be seen whether such misconduct is rare or widespread, one expert made it clear that the disclosures offer a glimpse into what “has been a hidden world” in California, where most officer discipline was confidential for decades until the new law took effect Jan. 1.

VIDEO: Body camera video released by the Rio Vista Police department shows the moment Jenks was bitten by a K9.

CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device

“Police discipline has always been shrouded in secrecy,” University of Nebraska Criminal Justice Professor Samuel Walker said. “It’s very good that the public knows about these things and as more and more records are released we will get a better picture of the patterns; what are some of the recurring problems?”

These firings are the latest bombshell to hit the 14-member police department in Rio Vista, a Solano County city of 9,000 nestled alongside the Sacramento River. A former chief and at least seven officers have left the department or been fired since 2016, and Mayor Ronald Kott said additional administrative investigations are occurring in what appears to be a major shakeup.

“The seriousness of the sustained allegations cannot be overstated,” the investigator of Collondrez’s case wrote in a report. “Honesty and integrity are the foundations of the law enforcement profession and failing in either is severely detrimental to the department’s ability to maintain the public trust.”
A call to 911

Jenks had called police seven times between Sept. 22 and the day of her arrest to report that her car alarm was going off, that someone was trying to break into the vehicle, and her garden hose had been tampered with. Sometimes she hung up, and she sometimes didn’t answer when dispatchers called her back. Officers never found anything suspicious.

Rafferty and her partner, rookie Officer Man Ly had a plan ready if she called again, records show: they would arrest her for abusing the 911 system. They got their chance Sept. 30.

Jenks appears defiant in body-camera footage captured as the officers talk to her on her porch about the calls. Jenks insisted that she called 911 to report an emergency and told the officers they were there to serve and protect her. She cried out for her boyfriend, David O’Reilly, when Ly told her to put her hands behind her back and attempted to handcuff her. She fought back and yelled for help, kicking at the officers.

“Why are you picking on her?” O’Reilly asked, appearing in the doorway. “She hasn’t done anything.”

More Rio Vista officers arrived and wrestled with Jenks in her front yard. Suddenly, Rafferty’s police K-9 “Rio” appeared in the darkened fray, clamping down on Jenks’ arm and opening a gruesome wound deep in her muscle tissue as she screamed in pain. Rafferty is then heard calmly issuing a one-word command in German for the dog to release, ending the attack.

Rafferty later told investigators that a button on her equipment had been accidentally pushed during the tussle, opening a door on her police vehicle that allowed the dog to get out. Jenks said she still has nightmares about being attacked by a dog.

“All I could think was, ‘Oh my goodness do I still have my arm?’” Jenks said in a recent interview. “He didn’t rip. He bit straight through.”

The internal investigation into Jenks’ arrest found that Rafferty put false information in police reports to bolster a felony charge against Jenks, including that she had bitten the officers. Rafferty and Ly submitted photos of alleged bites, but an investigator found the claim that the woman’s bites hurt them was “patently false.”

Rafferty also disobeyed directions to submit only misdemeanor charges against Jenks, the investigation found, and submitted a felony resisting arrest count.

Ly no longer works for the department. Rafferty was served on Jan. 16 with a notice of the department’s intent to fire her. She can still appeal the firing. Both she and her lawyer declined to be interviewed.

Chief Dan Dailey said he referred potential criminal charges against both officers to the Solano County District Attorney, alleging perjury and falsification of a police report. DA Spokeswoman Monica Martinez said the office did not receive the referral.

Jenks still faces charges on six misdemeanors — for unlawful 911 calls, battery on each officer and resisting arrest. She is due in Solano County Superior Court in March.
A hit and run

In the other case, a veteran Rio Vista officer’s misconduct so tainted a drunken driving, hit-and-run investigation that the suspect couldn’t be charged. A sergeant noticed major inconsistencies in a police report of the incident and raised concerns to the chief.

Information from the victim in the case pointed officers John Collondrez and Anthony Costa to a Rio Vista home a few minutes after 9 p.m. on Aug. 17, 2017, and the officers noticed a dent in a truck parked outside.

Collondrez and Costa went inside without a warrant or permission, and when the suspect, who this news organization is not identifying because he was never charged, refused to go outside, Collondrez shoved him against a wall and put the man in a potentially deadly chokehold, investigators found. Body camera video shows the hold lasting about 20 seconds.https://youtu.be/UC8C_BnTqZQ

Collondrez later told investigators that he had intended to apply a carotid, or “sleeper,” hold. When done properly, the hold constricts the blood flow to the brain by applying pressure to both sides of the neck, causing a brief loss in consciousness.

The internal affairs investigation found that the officer lied about discovering keys in the suspect’s pocket and investigating the scene of the collision, which actually occurred in Sacramento County, not Rio Vista. Collondrez, the report says, did neither. The investigation also found he used excessive force, made an improper arrest and didn’t seek medical care for the suspect, which department policy requires.

Collondrez, the former head of the Rio Vista Police Officers Association, twice appealed the city’s move to fire him. He resigned on Sept. 19. The former officer is now a security consultant for Uber. A company spokesman wrote in an email Monday that Collondrez’s firing from Rio Vista is a concern, and they are “reviewing the matter.”

Neither Collondrez nor his attorney agreed to be interviewed. “You are on a witch hunt to find dirty cops,” Collondrez wrote in a Facebook message.”I am not that.”

Rio Vista City Manager Robert Hickey said he stands by the findings of the investigations and the police chief.

“Who guards the guardians?” he said. “I take that very seriously and I’m willing to ensure that investigations go forward as needed.”

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Ashley Turton - A Political Tragedy

Murders Near Obama

The Energy Conundrum

Ashley Turton murdered by fire hours before the biggest energy merger was about to begin.

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