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Attorneys sum (SCUM) up cases in PG&E trial linked to San Bruno explosion

ScreenshotAttorneys sum up cases in PG&E trial linked to San Bruno explosion

By George Avalos, gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com

Posted:   07/26/2016 02:37:21 PM PDT | Updated:   33 min. ago

SAN FRANCISCO -- A prosecutor and a defense attorney painted sharply different portraits of PG&E's actions in the years before and the months after a fatal explosion in San Bruno during closing arguments to a jury on Tuesday in the embattled utility's criminal case.

A federal prosecutor claimed in his closing arguments that PG&E made a series of deliberate choices to break pipeline safety regulations as well as to intentionally obstruct an official government probe into the causes of the blast, which killed eight and leveled a San Bruno neighborhood in September 2010.

"PG&E is a company that lost its way," assistant U.S. attorney Jeffrey Schenk told the jury in his summation of the government's case against the utility. "For years, PG&E forced engineers to act more like business people than engineers. They made decisions to maximize profits instead of prioritizing safety."

A defense attorney, however, countered in his closing arguments, that PG&E employees and executives didn't intentionally violate the law.

"Nobody at PG&E is criminal," defense attorney Steven Bauer told the jury. "These are decent people, competent engineers, just trying to do their jobs."

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Prosecutors have maintained that PG&E officials and engineers were well aware that they were skirting federal rules by deliberately spiking pressure on their older and more fragile pipelines and intentionally not undertaking relatively costly water pressure tests on pipelines as a way to determine the safety of the pipes.

"The engineers were not confused," Schenk said. "They knew the differences between what the regulations were and what they were doing."

Defense attorneys, though, have countered that PG&E engineers were wrestling with a bewildering array of federal rules about what sort of tests to apply to pipelines in the company's aging system. Bauer argued that the prosecution failed to show a pattern of criminal conduct.

"What is this case about? It's an elaborate second-guessing exercise," Bauer said. "The employees never intentionally and wilfully violated the rules."

The day included not only the closing arguments, but also a lengthy hearing that involved sparring between the prosecution and the defense prior to the jury entering the courtroom. The judge decided to recess for the day before defense attorney Bauer had completed his closing arguments.

U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson said he would consider a prosecution motion that the jury be shown photographs of the explosion prior to the start of deliberations. The jury could get the case on Wednesday for its decision.

The utility has been charged with 12 counts of breaking federal laws, including one allegation that it obstructed a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the explosion and 11 charges that it violated pipeline safety violations.

PG&E has pleaded not guilty to all the charges. If convicted on all the counts, PG&E faces a fine of up to $562 million.

Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.

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The PG&E Drama

During early 2011 a PG&E vendor hailing from Roswell Georgia contacted Pete Bennett with a software project related to the San Bruno Explosion. Pete is a local Bay Area Developer but then was homeless and desperate for work and money.
What Bennett would soon discover was this was a fake project just like FAKE NEWS.
By summer his sons were kidnapped by a Walnut Creek Police officer who was once Sgt Keeler connected to the 1988 Murder of Safeway Manager Cynthia Kempf.
 

THE PG&E Data Breach !!!

Enough information to kill millions
 
 

PG&E exceeded legal pressure limits in numerous pipelines

By George Avalos, gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com
Updated:   07/20/2016 04:00:32 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- PG&E spiked the pressure beyond the maximum allowed level on numerous pipelines and was aware of defects in several pipes -- including the one that failed in the San Bruno explosion -- according to an FBI agent who scoured company records after the disaster.
The utility also was unable to provide investigators with required pressure test records on several lines, the agent testified Tuesday in the company's federal criminal trial.
Separately, PG&E provided federal officials investigating the explosion two different versions of its policy on pipeline pressure spikes, documents showed.
The evidence submitted on Tuesday appeared to bolster prosecutors' allegations that PG&E violated pipeline safety rules before the blast and subsequently obstructed the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation.
Prosecutor Hartley West asked FBI Special Agent Sandra Flores what her review of PG&E pipeline records revealed. The records showed a manufacturing defect in a segment of Line 132, the pipeline that ruptured beneath San Bruno, Flores testified.  Eight people were killed and dozens of homes were destroyed in the ensuing explosion.
Additionally, Flores testified that she discovered pressure test reports did not exist for numerous pipelines throughout the Bay Area, including segments in or near San Jose, Sunnyvale, Woodside, Newark and Pittsburg. Records also were missing for a line near Aptos High School in Santa Cruz County, she said.
Flores said her review found 196 pipe segments with "active" manufacturing defects. For pipelines installed before 1970 -- such as the ill-fated Line 132 -- federal rules allow operators to set the maximum pressure at the highest level that was used in the pipes in the previous five years.
But the same federal rules also require any lines in which the pressure has spiked above allowed levels -- no matter how tiny -- be tested with water at high pressure. Those tests cost much more than the relatively inexpensive inspection of external corrosion on pipes, a method preferred by PG&E.
After the explosion, PG&E scrambled to comply with an array of data requests for the NTSB probe. The utility initially gave federal and state investigators one version of its pressurization policy that indicated PG&E spiked pressure on lines by as much as 10 percent over the legal limits.
Later, PG&E attempted to dismiss that letter as a draft document that was never in effect. The characterization of the document as an unapproved draft of a program is a key element in the prosecution's obstruction allegation.
San Francisco-based PG&E faces 13 criminal counts, including 12 alleged violations of pipeline safety rules and one that it obstructed the NTSB investigation. PG&E has pleaded not guilty to all the charges and could be fined $562 million.
Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.
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A Murder Near Presidents

JoBenet Ramsey
Ashley Turton well known Congressional staffer but few known that her husband Dan Turton was President Obama's gatekeeper.  Her tragic death leads to Duke and Progress Energy who coincidently like PG&E retained G4S which is the Omar Mateen Orlando Shooter.

Bleeding For PG&E

In July 2011, CHP Officers arrested me for PC-270 (Child Support) as ever since my truck exploded in 2004 I've had endless attempts on my life. No one listened and for over two years I begged for help from Senator Feinstein then one day G4S emerges. 

Former Duke and Progress Enegy Lobbyist

There is no reality to events around me.  Accidents, arson and fires. 

Pete Bennett in Feb 2011 received a call from Paul Reddit of Ravenel Inc then located in Roswell GA.  By the time the engagement was done Bennett was jail, his car totaled in Lafayette CA, his sons gone and then Captain Tim Schultz was looking to shoot Bennett dead.

Mugged Walnut Creek CA Feb 2016

Bleeding For PG&E

In July 2011 while working as PG&E Sub Contractor my car was totaled Lafayette CA - I've blogged those facts a long time ago on Contra Costa Watch

Unpaid former PG&E Programmer

There is no reality to events around me.  Accidents, arson and fires. 
Incident Map reflecting PG&E related incidents but not all.  
This map details events between Feb 2011 to August 2011 where Bennett faced Captain Schultz, Sgt. Mike Chan and Officer Gina Staddler (A good officer)



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I was right but this entity was elusive, shadowy and mysterious until Omar Mateen opened fire.





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