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How was PG&E convicted of mass manslaughter in the 2018 #CampFire?
We finally have the case they pleaded guilty to: 42 days of secret testimony in front of a Butte County grand jury.
We've made all 5,000+ pages available, but since you likely haven't got time to read 'em...
We finally have the case they pleaded guilty to: 42 days of secret testimony in front of a Butte County grand jury.
We've made all 5,000+ pages available, but since you likely haven't got time to read 'em...
...here's a link to our story.
And a brief thread on what @ABC10's #FirePowerMoney team found inside 👇
Dozens of PG&E employees testified under oath.
Prosecutors started with what they found at the origin point of the Camp Fire:
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And a brief thread on what @ABC10's #FirePowerMoney team found inside 👇
Dozens of PG&E employees testified under oath.
Prosecutors started with what they found at the origin point of the Camp Fire:
abc10.com/article/news/l…
This.
A broken cast-iron C-hook that held up the bare wire, estimated to be a 97+ year old original part on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line.
This hook broke first, likely because it was was on a tower that sat on this wind-prone hilltop.
But there were many more:
A broken cast-iron C-hook that held up the bare wire, estimated to be a 97+ year old original part on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line.
This hook broke first, likely because it was was on a tower that sat on this wind-prone hilltop.
But there were many more:
PG&E political power @ work:
“Gov. @GavinNewsom has decided that PG&E is going to continue, and so we're going to have to deal with PG&E in our community,” said Sonoma DA Ravitch, who called the deal “doing the best that we could under the circumstances.”
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“Gov. @GavinNewsom has decided that PG&E is going to continue, and so we're going to have to deal with PG&E in our community,” said Sonoma DA Ravitch, who called the deal “doing the best that we could under the circumstances.”
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After the announcement, Ravitch suggested @ABC10 do a story on @PGE4Me’s influence in Sacramento.
I told her we had. Many times.
Like when we asked @GavinNewsom about taking PG&E 💰 after its 2016 felony convictions. He called it a “strange question.”👇
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I told her we had. Many times.
Like when we asked @GavinNewsom about taking PG&E 💰 after its 2016 felony convictions. He called it a “strange question.”👇
abc10.com/article/news/i…
Or when @ABC10’s #FirePowerMoney listed each member of the 80% supermajority of #CAleg who did the same:
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Why is PG&E still in charge?
Our 3-year @ABC10 investigation of @PGE4Me’s deadly crimes has turned to the state government’s response.
WATCH HERE🎥 ⤵️
#FirePowerMoney: How Governor @GavinNewsom Protected PG&E
PART 1: ‘More than a Bailout’
(15 min)
Our 3-year @ABC10 investigation of @PGE4Me’s deadly crimes has turned to the state government’s response.
WATCH HERE🎥 ⤵️
#FirePowerMoney: How Governor @GavinNewsom Protected PG&E
PART 1: ‘More than a Bailout’
(15 min)
NEW: @PGE4Me's federal probation judge, William Alsup, demands answers on the #DixieFire and #FlyFire.
He asks about the tree that fell on PG&E's power line at the Dixie origin point-- demands inspection images showing what it looked like before it fell.
#FirePowerMoney @ABC10
He asks about the tree that fell on PG&E's power line at the Dixie origin point-- demands inspection images showing what it looked like before it fell.
#FirePowerMoney @ABC10
This judge found PG&E committed safety violations in the 2020 #ZoggFire, which killed four people.
He based that finding in part on 2019 inspection photos of the power line, showing the tree leaning in the power line's direction.
#FirePowerMoney @ABC10
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He based that finding in part on 2019 inspection photos of the power line, showing the tree leaning in the power line's direction.
#FirePowerMoney @ABC10
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The #DixieFire is just the latest in a long list of criminal investigations (also convictions) against PG&E for causing big disasters:
#FirePowerMoney @ABC10 #CampFire #KincadeFire #SanBruno #ZoggFire
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#FirePowerMoney @ABC10 #CampFire #KincadeFire #SanBruno #ZoggFire
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New PG&E CEO Patti Poppe says she said no to the job a couple of times.
She says she took it after watching video of the Paradise fire, including @abc10’s #FirePowerMoney stories (by @brandonrittiman).
She is speaking now at the CPUC on regionalization.
cpuc.ca.gov/calEvent.aspx?…
She says she took it after watching video of the Paradise fire, including @abc10’s #FirePowerMoney stories (by @brandonrittiman).
She is speaking now at the CPUC on regionalization.
cpuc.ca.gov/calEvent.aspx?…
My big takeaway from this hearing so far is that along with regionalized units, PG&E will also be moving from monthly to daily check-ins across the organization.
Also surprised by the first leg of the Q&A...
Also surprised by the first leg of the Q&A...
With the PG&E CEO there, the CPUC President didn't have a question. A 2nd commissioner had no questions. A 3rd one praised the CPUC president instead of asking a question. Finally Comm Guzman Aceves says to PG&E people that what they just presented sounds like the standard quo
