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Mike Danko explains how PG&E seeks to limit legitimate claims by imposing a deadline that is too short for many victims. Overwhelmed or Ill Informed, 70,000 Wildfire Victims May Get Nothing Read the New York Times article on line.

Mike Danko tells the San Francisco Chronicle that PG&E’s liability for the Tubbs Fire alone could reach $18 billion. “ The best way of forcing the issue of reasonable negotiations is to have a Tubbs Fire trial looming.” Read the full San Francisco Chronicle article online.

Danko says that the federal monitor’s report highlights the continuing risk that PG&E equipment could spark another wildfire. Read the full Wall Street Journal article online.  

To Danko, allowing an electric utility like PG&E to be owned by investors is “totally contrary to the interests of safety.” Click here to read more.

Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor, was shot and killed in his Seattle home. Wales had been prosecuting a case involving a Bell Helicopter — an odd case which seemed as mysterious as his murder.  Though the murder took place in 2001, Rod Rosenstein announced a few months ago that the murder investigation is still active. …