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San Diego goes to smart-energy meters
Oops... CPUC's "Division of Ratepayer Analysts" should have been Division of Ratepayer Advocates— April 8, 2010 10:28 a.m.
Judge Dumps Criminal Pension Charges
Apparently, the greatest threat to us all is that we are greatly mistaken that politicians are well regulated under federal law when it comes to subtle pension massaging, even more mistaken than observing obvious funny business going on as to the urge for massaging undressed dancers by certain former city council members who leave behind hours of wiretapped cell phone messages about "campaign contributions" in plain envelopes from strip clubs.— April 8, 2010 10:07 a.m.
Jerry’s money
LOL... Guess what shows up as the first link on a google of "Maxxum Equity Fund"? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/may/28/ci… Everything else on that page of search results seems to point to firms... in Canada?!? You and Mr. Bauder should crack open a bottle of something with mind-altering alcohol content and re-read your old article for laughs.— April 7, 2010 4:26 p.m.
Did Sanders Order Detective Reprimanded?
Too bad reporters are verbotten at depositions...— April 7, 2010 2:26 p.m.
Tampopo
Good review of a truly amusing film. NR rating is well deserved.— April 7, 2010 2:25 p.m.
San Diego goes to smart-energy meters
"SDG&E’s local media gatekeeper, April Bolduc, rebuffed my attempts to uncover details that might validate (or cast doubt on) Faust’s account. Apparently peeved about a past story that delved into the company’s practices, she announced, 'We don’t do interviews with the Reader because factual information doesn’t make it into articles.'" Attorneys for Sempra Energy and SDG&E already know my blogs, having shown them to me during depositions. They also question my past designation by FBI and the US Department of Justice as a federal crime victim. If anyone has looked at the dates of my blogs specifically at the Reader, then they all come after the initial July 2007 guilty verdicts in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. SDG&E. http://www.justice.gov/usao/cas/press/cas70713-SD… For those who don't know about the Encanto Gas Holder site, my blog photos all are of the stuff that has been coming out of that lot for the past decade and which SDG&E swears has no asbestos in it. Right. What they don't tell anyone about are the reams of asbestos sample analysis reports that were taken where the percentage of asbestos in those samples ranged all the way up to 50-60%. SDG&E also won't tell you that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) through its Division of Ratepayer Analysts is still very interested in the Encanto Gas Holder site demolition that took place in 2000-2001, and that SDG&E is forbidden from passing along any legal costs from that matter to you customers. In case nobody has figured it out yet, SDG&E's current application in front of CPUC for a Wildfire Expense Balancing Account (WEBA application) is just another way of passing along SDG&E's "cost of doing business" by not putting power lines underground until at least 2063, so that any future wildfire-related legal costs (drumroll please...) get passed on to you customers. SDG&E claims that CPUC has the constitutional duty to protect Sempra Energy stockholders from SDG&E practices, even when SDG&E employees are negligent; details on this as part of the WEBA application are somewhere in my earlier blogs. It's amazing and/or sickening what you can learn about your local power company by subscribing to all documents they file with CPUC, so that a link shows up in your daily email. http://subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov/ As for SDG&E's wifi smart meters and the vulnerabilities to customers of having them installed, wanted or not: http://www.electricityforum.com/news/jan10/Expert…— April 7, 2010 2:20 p.m.
Did Sanders Order Detective Reprimanded?
A link to the Kelly Bennett article "Tumult in Little Italy" that appeared on March 15, 2007, giving us a look at what was transpiring between the Little Italy Association and Kessler (who was telling them to see the City Attorney's office about funds being held and not paid until further notice): http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/survival/article_e…— April 6, 2010 11:22 a.m.
Did Sanders Order Detective Reprimanded?
The activity log for San Diego Superior Court case number 37-2009-00092899-CU-WE-CTL tells a fascinating story. Apparently, Plaintiff Kessler's ex parte filing of March 23 reshuffled the entire deck, ultimately setting up a trial date for August 13, 2010 should the City of San Diego not prevail on its motion for summary judgment or summary adjudication in the alternative. I believe that if it is not under seal, then Defendant City of San Diego's motion and supporting declarations for summary judgment or summary adjudication in the alternative (filed February 26, 2010) are "must reads" for anyone curious as to how Plaintiff's ex parte hearing held on on March 24 has put certain choice portions on the butcher block for the mid-May deposition of Hiz Honor. Those would be "must reads" so that we Citizens of San Diego can run up a preliminary total on the potential damage Hiz Honor has exposed our tax payments to, in terms of looming liability from official acts done without bothering to wait for an appropriate staff analysis of where not to leap.— April 6, 2010 10:39 a.m.
Illegal beagle
Coincidentally, Carol Lam's departure from the local US Attorney's Office came shortly after Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas and Electric Company was indicted in a federal environmental crimes matter in 2006. Her successor was able to get guilty verdicts by jury in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. SDG&E in 2007, but the verdicts were tossed out and the re-trial was dismissed when clever lawyering got key APCD, DEH, US EPA and FBI evidence first used in 2007 to be ruled as inadmissible late last year... It turns out that California NVLAP-compliant results of "50-60%" friable asbestos don't mean what they say when 42 USC 7412(d)(7) gets ignored.— April 2, 2010 4:01 p.m.
Scott Kessler works with FBI investigating Marco Li Mandri
RE #36 I should refuse to answer on multiple grounds. In any case, the following segment appears to show that a good cop going bad can get a pension, times three... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkAlXShxCQ— March 21, 2010 3:31 p.m.