As we have noted, there is an ongoing scandal unfolding at the state Public Utilities Commission involving its former president Michael Peevey and a grant he tried to provide for a UCLA research program. However, as we have also noted, the scandal appears to be on the PUC side, not with UCLA. From the LA Times:
A state criminal investigation into the California Public Utilities
Commission centers on former President Michael Peevey's persistent
intervention into the process to assign costs for the failure of the San
Onofre nuclear power plant, newly released court documents show. Specifically,
Peevey pushed the idea of plant owner Southern California Edison
funding $25 million of greenhouse gas research at UCLA as part of the $4.7-billion settlement deal. The power plant on San Diego County's north coast closed following a
radiation leak in January 2012. A deal assigning 70% of the premature
closure costs to utility customers has since been repudiated by two of
the consumer groups that negotiated it, amid revelations about
undisclosed private meetings, known as "ex parte" meetings, between
regulators and utility executives. A sworn affidavit by an
investigator for California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, unsealed last
month, lays out the developing criminal case in detail for the first
time. The 18-page document says improper meetings were held,
which might bring misdemeanor charges, but that a conspiracy to commit
those misdemeanors could be considered a felony...
Full story at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-watchdog-peevey-20151230-story.html
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