{"id":2695,"date":"2020-03-24T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2020-03-25T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:17:11","slug":"pge-pleads-guilty-to-nearly-100-counts-of-manslaughter-from-2018-camp-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E Pleads Guilty to Nearly 100 Counts of Manslaughter from 2018 Camp Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cementing itself in history as the cause of California\u2019s deadliest wildfire, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric has plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2018 Camp fire in the Northern California town of Paradise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), PG&amp;E reached the settlement with the Butte County District Attorney\u2019s Office just recently, agreeing to pay $3.5 million in fines and penalties. However, no further charges would be pressed, which disappointed many consumer advocates hoping to hold the corporation fully accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Company ignores safety concerns. Company causes fire that took 84 souls. <\/p>\n<p>No one is going to jail. <\/p>\n<p>Billion dollar company&#39;s fine? $3.5 million and don&#39;t forget $500K to the DA. <\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s $47K per life they&#39;re responsible for. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFu3BvF07P\">https:\/\/t.co\/BFu3BvF07P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udf83 Hateful Old Bastard \ud83c\udf83 (@realSpookyShawn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realSpookyShawn\/status\/1242114686017056769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mindy Spatt of the Utility Reform Network pointed out that \u201cif corporations are people, as the Supreme Court has suggested, PG&amp;E would be in jail right now. That is normally the penalty for manslaughter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There simply is no denying PG&amp;E\u2019s egregious incompetence and the consequential destruction they\u2019ve caused. It\u2019s incredibly important to hold them entirely accountable for the havoc they\u2019ve wreaked across the state. Though the fine is a step in the right direction, PG&amp;E actions contributing to nearly 1oo deaths and the loss of thousands of homes warranted a far greater punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cementing itself in history as the cause of California\u2019s deadliest wildfire, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric has plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2018 Camp fire in the Northern California town of Paradise.\u00a0 In a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), PG&amp;E reached the settlement with the Butte County District&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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