PG&E SVP Brian Cherry Fired Over My PG&E Laptop Breach

PG&E Brian Cherry Fired over Insider Terrorism Breach

Nearly 10,000 pages of PG&E Gas Transmission Groups Infrastructure data was lost leading the possibility it was Domestic Terrorism perpetrated by Insider Terrorist.
The files below would be worth millions.  My allegations since July 2011 that this was an inside job by PG&E personal connected to PG&Es Newman Operations where billions in Construction Costs were managed in a little cinder block building far afield from PG&E headquarters.  One stark possibility is embezzlement was real reason the pipelines were never replaced.

Yes sire, when no one was looking, we dug the trench, welded the new pipes, then laid the pipe and then covered all of hard work and called it a day.

The Golden Goose Just Laid Another Egg - Gone Fishing in Hawaii? 

History

When Kieth Lynds of Hillside Covenant Church posted a near clairvoyant and highly insightful message via Facebook on July 17th 2011 where he revealed that he'd clearly was behind the breaching of my laptop.  

Three days later on July 20th 2011 Keith was sending messages seeking to meet me at Round Up Bar Lafayette CA but on the way someone drove me into oncoming traffic where the car was totaled.  

Then about two weeks later I'm facing Walnut Creek Police Captain Schultz with Sgt. Mike Chan with a detective who'd been following me around Walnut Creek.  

The car was sold to me by Paul Redditt of Ravenel Enterprises who employed me to work on the PG&E Hydro Testing Project related to the PG&E San Bruno Fire.  When Ravenel failed to pay for services I connected PG&E with complaints that my car accident was related to the PG&E Project. 

About a year later I discovered that Redditt placed over 10,000 pages of sensitive data e.g. pipeline maps and maps of small inconsequential locations such as the Metcalf Station where this minor sniper attack occured.  

The maps, databases, charts, locations and GPS Coordinates would be worth millions to any terrorist group seeking to decimate PG&E Gas Transmission System.  My first letter arrived at PG&E in August 2011, the PG&E Count One Indictment is probably related in part to these events. 

Long before this project came along someone torched my attorneys offices in 2001, then someone else attacked and beat up a different attorney, then someone murdered the brother of yet another attorney whose father is attorney connected to PG&E.  

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Guitars Not Guns Too Close to Kinder Morgan Fire

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Heart fan makes high bid Staff report POSTED: 11/18/2009 10:20:12 AM PST UPDATED: 11/18/2009 10:20:14 AM PST Contributed Heart fan makes high bid Walnut Creek police Lt. Steve Skinner — an acknowledged Heart fan — was the high bidder for an autographed guitar signed by Ann and Nancy Wilson. 

The sister duo, whose band had hits such as "Barracuda," "Dreamboat Annie" and "Alone," signed the Epiphone EJ-200 jumbo acoustic guitar for an e-Bay auction. Proceeds exclusively benefitted Guitars Not Guns, a Concord-based nonprofit providing free guitars and lessons to foster children, at-risk youth and other deserving children, to offer a positive influence and divert them from the influences of violence, gangs, drugs and alcohol. 

The auction ended at $2,891.55, before e-Bay fees. On hand for the presentation were Contra Costa chapter representatives, from left, instructor Bruce Johnson; Randall Davis, chapter vice president; volunteer instructor Jim Mergens; Barbara Gorin, vice president of fundraising; Skinner; and Frank Darling, California chapter president.

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Without saying exactly which names connect to the litigation but there there are two persons in the above list that should have a Chinese Wall between them and that is even more important when there are five deaths attributed to the fire, three deaths near the fire, one is definitive and first hand witness, the other was a dubious Murder/Suicide of mom whose brother worked for Mountain Cascade.

She was one of the nicest loving moms ever - she was a brief friend but these investigators would know I was going to assemble her play structure with my sons and her daughter in one of those PWP days.  I don't believe the investigators, Kinder Morgan and don't believe Cal Fire Pipeline Safety Group who refused to speak to me long before I discovered the dead witnesses.  My phone calls are being monitored by the FBI probably all the way back to when I told them I was hit by an arsonist just before the Kinder Morgan fire. 

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‘Inappropriate’ Emails With PG&E

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CPUC Acts After New Round of ‘Inappropriate’ Emails With PG&E

Dan Brekke | September 15, 2014

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The California Public Utilities Commission announced Monday that it’s taking steps to deal with newly uncovered “inappropriate email exchanges” earlier this year between a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. executive and senior CPUC officials, including CPUC President Michael Peevey and his chief of staff.

In a statement, the commission said the chief of staff, Carol Brown, has agreed to resign. For his part, Peevey has recused himself from the rate case that was at the center of the newly disclosed emails, as well as the commission’s ongoing deliberations over final penalties against PG&E for the September 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline disaster.

As the CPUC made its action public, PG&E announced it had dismissed three executives involved in the email exchanges, including Brian Cherry, vice president for regulatory relations.

The company said the messages “may have violated CPUC rules prohibiting certain ex parte communications — meaning communication with decision-makers that takes place without the knowledge of all parties to a proceeding.” PG&E said it discovered the exchange of emails during a review of five years of emails between the company and the commission.

The exchange is apparently separate from a series of messages made public in July. Those messages included emails between Peevey, Brown and CPUC Executive Director Paul Clanon with Cherry and others at PG&E. Both the company and the commission defended the earlier emails, which discussed issues relating to the San Bruno blast and its regulatory aftermath, as routine messages necessary for the conduct of business. San Bruno city officials and The Utility Reform Network (TURN) blasted the emails as unethical, unprofessional and possibly illegal.

The email exchanges disclosed Monday and published on the CPUC website focused on a major proceeding initiated last December in which the commission is to set future rates for PG&E’s gas transmission and storage services.

CPUC: Emails Between Commission and PG&E

In a series of messages sent in January 2014, PG&E’s Cherry sought inside information from Brown, Peevey’s chief of staff, about which commissioner and which of the CPUC’s administrative law judges would be assigned to oversee the case.

In his messages, Cherry expressed a preference for the appointment of Commissioner Mike Florio and Administrative Law Judge John Wong. His tone is peremptory at times, as when he wrote Brown, in reference to Wong’s appointment, “Can you get it done ASAP please?”

Cherry pointedly opposed the appointment of judges he said were unfriendly to the company. In several brief notes, Brown told Cherry that Wong would be unavailable for the case due to a heavy workload.

But Cherry persisted.

At one point, he wrote directly to Peevey that Wong’s apparent unavailability “is a problem. Hope Carol [Brown] can fix it.”

Later, Cherry wrote Brown, “I’m not sure we could get someone worse” when he learned of one judge’s possible appointment to the case. He told Brown another judge candidate “screwed us royally” in an earlier case. “Let’s just say she has a history of being very hard on us,” he wrote.

Cherry also emailed Commissioner Florio about Wong’s appointment, asking “what cases Wong is working on that is keeping him so busy?”

Eventually, the gas transmission case was assigned to Wong, prompting Cherry to write Brown, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

The appointment also occasioned an email from Florio to Cherry, saying, “I trust you’re happier now?? Not sure how this came about, but John is the best.” As part of the CPUC’s statement today, Florio conceded he “should not have” responded to “PG&E’s inappropriate inquiry.”

TURN, which had earlier called for Peevey to recuse himself from the CPUC’s San Bruno proceeding, on Monday said he should resign.

“It is clear that PG&E was calling the shots at the CPUC, and was accustomed to doing so,” said Mark Toney, TURN’s executive director, in a statement. Toney said the emails show “PG&E had a personal shopper in Peevey’s office, helping to pick and choose the judges that suited PG&E best.”

Toney said TURN wants PG&E to make public every email sent to CPUC commissioners and staff for the last five years.

In its statement, PG&E said it was dismissing Cherry, senior vice president of regulatory affairs Tom Bottorff and vice president of regulatory proceedings and rates Trina Horner. The company said it’s creating a new oversight position, chief regulatory compliance officer. It also announced it’s retaining former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar “as special counsel on regulatory compliance matters to assist in developing a best-in-class regulatory compliance model.”

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SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

Food Stamps v. Drivers License

It's official Pete Bennett former Software Developer from Danville is homeless.

• The Insurmountable Fines
• Committee
• Mitigating Factors
• Welfare Costs to the People 

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THE INSURMOUNTABLE FINES

The first ticket occurred in 2004 right after Danville Building Inspector (Gary Collins~Now Deceased) Assault case on Bennett, even with multiple witnesses, the entire assault being recorded by 911 the Contra Costa District Attorneys offices declined to prosecute which matches over 100 police reports from 1979 to 2014 - nothing happens.

Officer Murphy, and others pulled me over many times between August 2004 and 2007.  Officer Lombardi pulled his weapon and pointed it at me during one of these stops.

From there I appeared in court in front of Judge Golub the same day of the Gas Pipeline Explosion in Walnut Creek on Nov 9th 2004 where the Pillar of Fire was visible from the court house steps.

During subsequent years I got more tickets but I knew the Judge personally and explained to him in detail that Collins outsized me to his 300 lbs/6'6" to my 160 frame.  The troubling part is Joel was a Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge who decided that exploding trucks weren't could cause to call authorities.

When Danville Police Officer Stephen Tanabe was arrested in June 2011 it became clear that our mutual neighbor was connected to Chris Butler (Fed Prison to 2020) and California Department of Justice Commander Norman Wielsch (Fed Prison 2028).

Over the next few years I went to court attempting to resolve payment, get my license back but everytime I left the Court someone added more fines.

THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Human Services: (2nd and 4th Tuesday at 1:30 in room 3191)

JURISDICTION: Bills relating to CalWORKs and other welfare programs; food stamps, now called State Nutrition Assistance Program; child welfare and foster care; services to persons with disabilities, including those provided by regional centers and the state's developmental centers; in-home supportive services (IHSS); community care licensing; and, social services and rehabilitative services, in general.

Members:

Senator Jim Beall (Chair)
Senator Tom Berryhill (Vice Chair)
Senator Mark DeSaulnier
Senator Carol Liu
Senator Mark Wyland

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SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

 SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY 

PG&E and Kinder Morgan

The Domestic Terrorism Cover-ups connected to Gas Pipeline Explosions and the multiple breaches of Bennett's databases connected to the San Bruno Fire.  

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09/12/2014 ~ Call to Committee

Domestic Terrorism Cases
PG&E Sept 2010 

Kinder Morgan 2004 Gas Line Explosion 

PG&E Sniper Attack 2012 

WELCOME TO THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY WEBSITE

The Senate Committee on Public Safety meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 4203
and also meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 3191.

♦ Committee Jurisdiction
Legislation amending the following: a) Evidence Code, relating to criminal procedure; b) Penal Code;
c) statutes of a penal nature not related closely to a subject included in another subdivision of this rule; and
d) legislation relating to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

♦ Committee Members
Senator Loni Hancock (Chair)
Senator Joel Anderson (Vice Chair)
Senator Kevin de León 
Senator Steve Knight
Senator Carol Liu
Senator Holly Mitchell
Senator Darrell Steinberg

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Final Report of Kinder Morgan LS-16 Walnut Creek Accident - reposted from http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/

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Domestic Terrorism Breach - Historical Breaches of Bennett's PG&E Laptop

Once upon a time there was a fine country with happy citizens but inside there was a Dark Fairy with unbridled power, greed and contempt.  Every Dark Fairy had a Political Fairy who was favored in all the courts, the courts of men, the courts of heaven, the courts of California.   Their sole existence in the fairy world was to deny and denying everything.

The political fairies are the charming ones, always clever, always connected tending to hide paperwork under rugs from the meanest of regulators or in my story they hired unsuspecting programmers to hide things for them as nobody would know.

The Dark Fairy's were so good at lying they'd lied to all that came before them.

The Custody of the Laptop

Then there was this programmer dude who was given the keys to a big city, a city so big and bad that trillions flowed it's veins everyday. The programmer dude was only interested in paying his bills, playing music and being with his sons. Instead the programmer dude somehow gets screwed by the powerful dark fairy who after being issued new Golden Gated paperwork that was less than 450 pages their tune changed.

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EBRC Vandals Topple East Bay Radio Tower

Vandals Topple Tower while you were sleeping 

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 • Updated at 11:50 AM PDT

A massive communications tower on East Bay Regional Park District property collapsed over the weekend, prompting park police to seek the vandals who likely toppled it.

Lt. Jon King said despite the tower falling on its side on the Rocky Ridge, west of San Ramon and Danville, sometime before Monday morning, no one was injured and all systems remained operational because the communication systems are built with backups.

King did not say exactly when the tower fell over.

Police were alerted to the problem about 9 a.m. on Monday.

Officers responded and found that the cables that hold the tower in place had been cut, causing it to fall, police Capt. Mark Ruppenthal told Bay City News.

The tower supports radio communications systems, including public safety communications, across the East Bay.

Investigators are trying to determine why vandals would target the tower, which is located in a remote area of the park behind multiple gates and fences. "It's not easily accessed," he said.    

MORE: 911 Calls Down From Land Lines in South Santa Clara County

It’s unclear if this communications tower toppling is related to what’s been going on in the South Bay.

In April, the PG&E substation in South San Jose was vandalized, most likely by gunfire, shutting down 911 systems for much of the day.

And in May, a suspicious man in black was seen casing the property, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff.

Anyone with information about the East Bay tower should call park police at (510) 881-1833.

 

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$1.4 billion penalty urged for PG&E in San Bruno blast

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. must pay a record $1.4 billion in fines and improvements for violating pipeline safety laws in the deadly San Bruno natural-gas explosion, two administrative law judges said Tuesday.

The California Public Utilities Commission judges levied a $950 million fine against PG&E for the September 2010 blast that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. They also ordered the company to pay $400 million in improvements to its pipeline transmission system and $50 million in other costs, including an audit of changes it has already made to its gas lines since the disaster.

Combined with $635 million in pipeline upgrades that PG&E has already been ordered to absorb, the total cost of San Bruno fines and improvements to the company will top $2 billion, commission officials said in a statement.

The fines and ordered improvements would be paid for by PG&E's shareholders, not the company's customers.

The judges' ruling is final unless one of the parties in the San Bruno case or one of the utilities commission's five members challenges it within 30 days. If that happens, the matter would go before the full commission, whose members are appointed by the governor.

PG&E officials issued a statement that did not say whether they would challenge the ruling.

"We are accountable and fully accept that a penalty is appropriate," the company's statement said. "We have respectfully asked that the commission ensure that the penalty is reasonable and proportionate and takes into consideration the company's investments and actions to promote safety. Moreover, we believe any penalty should directly benefit public safety."

San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson said it was "way too soon" for city officials to decide whether to appeal.

Mayor Jim Ruane said he was concerned that the judges hadn't ordered PG&E to spend more on safety improvements, and that the penalty may be disproportionately weighted toward fines.

"There is an extraordinary amount in the fine that does not go directly into safety of the pipelines in the ground," Ruane said, "and that's unfortunate."

Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and a blue-ribbon panel appointed by the utilities commission have said PG&E failed to adequately test and maintain its system of more than 1,100 miles of urban gas-transmission lines before the San Bruno explosion. The blast happened when a seam weld that PG&E didn't know existed ruptured on a 30-inch transmission line.

Since the disaster, company executives say, PG&E has beefed up its pipeline replacement and testing programs and improved its emergency response system.

The penalty announced Tuesday would far exceed the utilities commission's highest-ever against a utility for gas-related violations, a $38 million fine against PG&E for a December 2008 explosion that killed a homeowner in Rancho Cordova (Sacramento County). It would also exceed the biggest fine ever against a U.S. utility for a gas blast, topping the $101.5 million fine against El Paso Natural Gas for an August 2000 explosion that killed a dozen campers in Carlsbad, N.M.

The PG&E case was divided into two main areas. Administrative Judge Amy Yip-Kikugawa presided over hearings into PG&E's incomplete or missing pipeline records and its failure to track population growth in urban areas and lower pressures accordingly for safety reasons.

Yip-Kikugawa found that PG&E had routinely made flawed assumptions about its pipelines and had known its records were in disarray. She also found the utility had consistently failed to lower pipeline pressures around newly developed areas, as required by law.

Retired Administrative Law Judge Mark Wetzell oversaw the allegations stemming from the blast itself. He found PG&E had failed to properly test many of its at-risk pipelines, including the one that ruptured in San Bruno. The company relied on an inspection method for most pipelines that was incapable of detecting flawed welds, Wetzell found.

Working off incorrect records, PG&E had concluded that the pipeline installed in San Bruno's Crestmoor neighborhood in the 1950s had no seam welds. The line finally ruptured at a cobbled-together assortment of short pipes, many with flawed seam welds.

Jaxon Van Derbeken is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail:jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com

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Domestic Terrorism in the East Bay 11th Congressional District

By Pete Bennett 
May 20th 2014


Walnut Creek CA:  On July 20th 2011 my car was totaled in Lafayette CA by persons suspected to have connections with Contra Costa County Narcotics Taskforce (CNET Scandal) who is connected to Gary Vinson Collins who is the now deceased Danville Building Inspector who is now deceased.

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Bennett has endured during 2004

• June ~ 1996 Ford Explorer ABS System sabotaged 
• July ~ Forced to close cabinet shop over shop equipment vandalism 
• Aug~ Arson victim in August,
• Sept ~ Town of Danville Sponsored mugging in
• Oct ~ Right after assault Chris Butler arrives, 
• San Ramon Police officer Lombardi aims weapon at Bennett, then Danville start the ticket campaign that Judge Golub eventually converts to $15,000 in fines, then there was the Nov 2004 Pipeline Explosion then I meet Alicia Driscoll, then my next door neighbor is allegedly hurt in a school bus accident on Lilac Drive Walnut Creek then my sons and I were targeted in a high speed maneuver known as a swoop and squat.

There is no brevity to my story it's an insane story but in June 2005 Alicia Driscoll died in a murder suicide, an investigation personally feel is flawed as the Alicia I'd see at McDonald's was loving mom and given Judith Williams lived a few doors away in killed her son on Mt. Diablo it doesn't look quite right.

CONGRESSMAN DeSaulnier and the Rusty Bolts Installers 

The bigger question leads back to why this blog exists as the November 9th 2004 pipeline explosion leads back to Alicia Driscoll whose is connected to Joe Driscoll who worked for Mountain Cascade then later I find Ellen Sabudaquaria died shortly later who is the most important witness seeing two men running from the tunnel on fire. To date I cannot her name anywhere on legal proceedings.

She is probably one of the most important first person witnesses to an early example of domestic terrorism.

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Son of PG&E Attorney:Nathaniel Greenan on Apr. 18, 2012 WTF? My Divorce Attorneys Brother in-law

Nathaniel James Greenan 
Resident of Pleasant Hill 
Former resident of Danville 

Passed away from injuries sustained in a car accident in Orinda on April 18th 2012 
Son of Jim and Pam Greenan, a brother and a friend. 

Friends are invited to attend services 10am Saturday April 21, 2012 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2949 Stone Valley Rd. Alamo, Ca. Interment to follow at Oakmont Cemetery, Lafayette, Ca.

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