{"id":178337,"date":"2019-01-01T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/01\/make-it-so-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:48:00","slug":"make-it-so-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/01\/make-it-so-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it So"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I don&#8217;t expect it to actually happen, but it appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisinsider.com\/california-utility-company-pge-could-face-charges-for-wildfires-2018-12\">some prosecutors are considering a murder charge against California utility PG&amp;E<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">California prosecutors are poised to charge the state&#8217;s largest utility company with an array of crimes, including murder and manslaughter if it is found responsible for starting two recent deadly wildfires. <\/p>\n<p> California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/california-wildfires\/article\/California-prosecutors-PG-E-could-face-13496663.php\">a new filing<\/a> that if Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co., which provides electricity to about 16 million customers, was found to have mismanaged or failed to maintain power lines, it would face a wide range of charges. <\/p>\n<p> Prosecutors wrote they were prepared to pursue a wide range of charges, including minor offenses, felonies or misdemeanors, and implied-malice murder and involuntary manslaughter. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just a ploy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all going to be pled down to a &#8220;cost of doing business&#8221; level of fines, likely with the state legislature passing laws limiting the utility behemoth&#8217;s liability, just like they did last time.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I dream of their senior executives being frog-marched out of their offices in hand cuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect it to actually happen, but it appears that some prosecutors are considering a murder charge against California utility PG&amp;E: California prosecutors are poised to charge the state&#8217;s largest utility company with an array of crimes, including murder and manslaughter if it is found responsible for starting two recent deadly wildfires. California Attorney &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,457,364,526],"class_list":["post-178337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-energy","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}