California Governor Gavin Newsom Took BIG Money Donations from PG & E
By Dean James
DCDirtyLaundry.com
October 30, 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the vast majority of members of the state legislature accepted more than four million dollars to influence California politics by a FELON!
That’s right folks. Who is this felon? It’s the Pacific Gas and Electric Company a publicly-traded corporation with a monopoly over power service to four out of every 10 people living in California, according to a special report from Brandon Rittiman, Eric Escalante, Chelsea Shannon at ABC10.
The political donor’s crimes were connected to the deaths of eight people. Politicians knew that but took the money anyway.
PG&E’s felony convictions were related to the deadly 2010 San Bruno gas explosion, which killed eight people. A jury found PG&E guilty of five counts of willfully breaking federal gas pipeline safety laws and one count of obstructing the federal investigation into the disaster.
Since being sentenced in January 2017, state investigators say PG&E sparked wildfires that killed 107 people — including the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people when it destroyed the entire town of Paradise.
Emma Colton at The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom accepted big dollar donations in 2018 from the utility company now being vilified for shutting off large sections of the state’s electricity grid to avoid sparking wildfires.
Newsom and his allies took $208,400 from Pacific Gas and Electric during his run for governor before the public utility began controlled blackouts. PG&E gave the governor the maximum amount of $58,400 and gave another $150,000 to a political spending group supporting his candidacy.
The donations were revealed during a seven-month investigation by California’s ABC affiliate, whose probe was part of a documentary series breaking down California’s 2018 wildfire crisis. ABC10 published its findings in July.
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