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Criminal

Jan. 28, 2017

PG&E sentenced in San Bruno explosion case

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was sentenced Thursday to a $3 million fine and five years of probation for failing to properly inspect pipelines before a gas explosion that killed eight people in San Bruno more than six years ago.

By Joshua Sebold
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was sentenced Thursday to a $3 million fine and five years of probation for failing to properly inspect pipelines before a gas explosion killed eight people in San Bruno more than six years ago.

Senior U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson imposed the maximum penalty, but the company emerged from its criminal litigatio...

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