“Newsom’s office crafted law protecting PG&E after company’s crimes killed 84 people”
I’m not sure PG&E committed any crimes. We had electric service with them up in the mountains. They didn’t make a penny off of us. They always had to come up and restore service, one time the storm was so bad that it took out so many lines that they had to bring up this huge generator for a couple weeks for everybody. That cost them a fortune.
Providing electricity to rural areas is always going to be problematic. If people want brand new underground lines put in, they’ll pay an arm and a leg for electric. I don’t know why people think it’s such an easy problem to fix and PG&E is just nasty. I’m amazed they even bother to do the rural areas, it certainly isn’t worth their time and lack of profit.
I think Newsome threatened to take over providing electricity to rural areas. PG&E probably jumped up and down clapping saying here you go. Then he realized his government would never be able to handle it so he had to provide PG&E some protection from bankruptcy. Or they would have just walked out, leaving a good part of California without power.
I know we talked about getting a fake vax card and the FBI is more worried about them than FAKE SS cards or FAKE ID’s to vote.
When will the FBI and DOJ put out warnings about illegals using fake Social Security numbers and about voters using fake ID’s to vote in a Federal election?
“FBI warns about penalties for making, using fake COVID-19 vaccination cards”
FTA:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As more businesses, schools, and cities begin to require the COVID-19 vaccine, reports are surfacing of fraudsters making, selling, and using fake vaccination cards.
This spring, the FBI warned about false vaccination cards for sale that were circulating online. In July, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a naturopathic doctor in Northern California. The agency said the doctor gave patients false vaccine cards and homeopathic remedies claiming they would help the body fight off COVID-19.
The DOJ said that misrepresenting the official seal of a U.S. agency, like the CDC logo on vaccine cards, could be a violation of federal law. Violators could face up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine.
Local health officials are encouraging people to take care of their paper vaccine cards, which is currently the best proof of vaccination against the virus.
In a statement, a spokesperson from Ohio Department of Health said:
“It is important to keep updated medical and vaccination records, whether that is for someone’s latest tetanus shot, the shingles vaccine, or their COVID-19 vaccination records. All Ohioans are encouraged to keep track of their COVID-19 vaccination card just like they would any other important medical record. To be clear, the COVID-19 Vaccination Card is currently the standard way to show proof of vaccination if requested by a medical provider or other entity requiring proof of vaccination.”
With more than 600 colleges and universities now requiring proof of COVID-19 inoculations, an online industry has sprung up offering fake vaccine cards. The easy access to fake documents has set off alarms at some schools where officials worry that unvaccinated students with forged credentials might cause an outbreak.
From the article:
The PG&E corporation pleaded guilty to recklessly sparking the Camp Fire through criminal negligence and to the felony manslaughter of 84 people in the deadliest wildfire in California history.
Some burned to death in their cars trying to run for their lives. Even more never escaped their own homes.
Though the law treats corporations as people, PG&E couldn’t be sentenced to the 90 years in prison the judge said its crimes deserved.
PG&E instead paid the maximum fine of $10,000 for each manslaughter victim, an amount of money PG&E earns every 17 seconds from its vast state-licensed monopoly over the power supply to four out of every ten Californians.
Prosecutors managed to convict PG&E of 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter within two years of the killings
Also FTA:
The ease with which PG&E has obtained two safety certificates in the face of new wildfires is alarming to safety advocates, including the CPUC’s own Public Advocates Office.
“For the extensive benefits that a company gets from having a safety certificate, it should come with the accountability,” said Nat Skinner, the head of safety for the Public Advocates Office. “[The safety certificate] makes it harder to hold the utility accountable.”
Beyond access to the $21 billion insurance fund, the benefits PG&E receives for its safety certificate are twofold.
First, if PG&E’s power lines spark a fire while it has a certificate, the company is presumed to have acted “reasonably,” which means it is entitled to bill customers for the cost of wildfire damage unless a challenger proves the company acted unreasonably.
Second, even if a challenger is successful in proving the utility acted unreasonably, the certificate caps the amount of wildfire damage that can be taken out of shareholders’ profits.