Blue Horseshoe 348 Posted June 11, 2023 "Granholm didn’t bother to specify which stocks she still owned at the time of her testimony. She said that information would be in her Annual Public Financial Disclosure Report in mid-June....To make matters worse for her, she admits that she and her husband, Daniel Mulhern, owned $2,457.89 worth of shares in Ford Motor Company. They sold those shares on May 15. Granholm, however, did not come forward with this additional information – the Ford stocks and the 6 stocks she retained when she was confirmed – until now, going into the middle of June. Ford is certainly a conflict of interest. How did she not divulge her ownership of that stock? She has submitted two Annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports so far and nothing has shown up about it....The Ford stock is a glaring conflict of interest, considering Granholm’s obsessive push for electric vehicles and even turning military vehicles into electric vehicles. She was appointed to the Board of Directors for ChargePoint, the world’s largest electric vehicle charging network, before she was in the cabinet position. She sold stock in the company that is a maker of electric buses that Biden touts. When she sold that stock in 2021, California-based Proterra Inc., she cleared a net gain of $1.6 million." https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/06/10/cabinet-secretary-admits-to-lying-under-oath-why-does-she-still-have-her-job Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Horseshoe 348 Posted June 11, 2023 "New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D.) gave a job paying a six-figure salary to his sister-in-law after an ethics office stopped him from giving one to his brother. Sharon Adams, wife of the mayor’s brother Bernard Adams, stepped into the role of “strategic initiative specialist” in the city’s Department of Education on March 5, a job that pays as much as $150,000 a year, according to the City. That is more than a 100 percent increase from the job she previously held in the Richmond Public Schools system that paid her less than $73,000 annually." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Horseshoe 348 Posted June 12, 2023 Newsom’s office crafted law protecting PG&E after company’s crimes killed 84 people | FIRE - POWER - MONEY Investigation ....Three days after Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated his 2018 election victory, one of his major corporate campaign donors caused a mass killing....The Pacific Gas and Electric Company pleaded guilty in June 2020 to felony involuntary manslaughter for killing 84 Californians in the 2018 Camp Fire....PG&E’s officials walked out of court to go back to work on turning a profit, aided by state policies Newsom crafted to help the company..... ....In the months after the crime, Newsom not only signed new financial protections for PG&E into law, his office hired private lawyers in New York who wrote the legislative language....An email from private attorneys working for Gov. Gavin Newsom with a draft version of AB 1054 attached....AB 1054 resulted in PG&E obtaining official state safety certificates for two fire seasons since the Camp Fire....The law was written by the lawyers under a contract to represent Newsom’s office in PG&E’s bankruptcy, state records show....After AB 1054 was already signed into law, drafting of legislation was added to an amended version of O'Melveny’s contract....Payment records obtained through state transparency laws show O'Melveny billed California taxpayers $3 million during the time when the law took shape....Investment bank Guggenheim also participated in crafting AB 1054 and charged $3.7 million during that time. Adding to concerns about a lack of independence of PG&E’s state regulators, the emails reveal that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) was assigned to write sections of AB 1054 by Newsom’s hired attorneys.....The agency is refusing to hand over its communications with key Newsom staffers around the time it waived a $200 million fine to help PG&E exit bankruptcy, prompting ABC10 to file suit under state transparency laws.....Newsom benefited from $208,400 in political contributions from PG&E to help him win his 2018 run for governor... ....The PG&E corporation pleaded guilty to recklessly sparking the Camp Fire through criminal negligence and to the felony manslaughter of 84 people in the deadliest wildfire in California history. Some burned to death in their cars trying to run for their lives. Even more never escaped their own homes. Though the law treats corporations as people, PG&E couldn’t be sentenced to the 90 years in prison the judge said its crimes deserved....PG&E instead paid the maximum fine of $10,000 for each manslaughter victim, an amount of money PG&E earns every 17 seconds from its vast state-licensed monopoly over the power supply to four out of every ten Californians. Prosecutors managed to convict PG&E of 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter within two years of the killings....PG&E now has an official state safety certificate.... the 2020 Zogg Fire, killed four people. The victims included an eight-year-old girl, Feyla McLeod, and her mother Alaina.....They burned to death trying to escape the fire in a pickup truck.... https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/newsom-pge-protection Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
