BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18768196 SEQUENCE:18887637 CREATED:20150207T193000Z DESCRIPTION:There will be a going away press conference and rally to demand the arrest and imprisonment of Michael Peevey former head of the PUC for corruption and criminal negligence. He has allowed PG&E and SCE to get away with corruption and murder.\n\n2/12 Arrest And Prosecute Corrupt Former PUC Chair Michael Peevey & Cronies-Press Conference And Rally\nCrooks Toast Crooks In San Francisco-Going Away Party For Former Corrupt Bully and CPUC Chair Michael Peevey\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/326272987565148\nFEB\n12\nProsecute Peevey Rally\n\n • Thursday, February 12at 5:00pm\n •\n465 California, San Francisco, CA 94104\n\nPress conference and rally outside the Merchant Exchange building in San Francisco as corrupted CPUC ex-President Michael Peevey is toasted by industry insiders and cronies.\n\nWHAT: Press Conference and Rally outside the location where Industry insiders will toast former CPUC President Michael Peevey.\n\nAt the same time, FBI Investigators have obtained physical evidence from the homes of Michael Peevey and Brian Cherry, former PG&E official.\n\nWHEN: February 12, 2015, 5pm to 7pm \n\nWHERE: Merchant Exchange Building, 465 California, San Francisco, CA 94104 (near corner of California and Montgomery)\nUse Montgomery or Embarcadero BART stations.\n\nWHO: Anyone can attend! Bring signs and loud voices! Definitely anyone inthese groups:\n> Shutdown Diablo activists\n> Shut San Onofre activists\n> Smart Meter activists\n> San Bruno Accident activists\n> Stop The Unfair Settlement activists\n> Watchers of the California Public Utilities Commission\n> Occupy protestors\n> Media and Reporters!\nSPEAKERS: List is being finalized now!\n> Michael Aguirre (former SD City Attorney)\n> Mia Severson,\n> Ray Lutz\n> ....more being confirmed.\nRVSP on this page!\n\nREAD ABOUT THE IMPROPRIETY AND LIKELY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF PEEVEY AND HIS CRONIES!\n\nhttp://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1534 - Report of Malfeasance and Institutional Corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission -- Mike Aguirre and Mia Severson, Aguirre & Severson, 2015-01-07 Ray Lutz contributed to this paper.\n\nhttp://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1534 -- "Shut up, goddammit" Listen to Peevey lose his cool when he is asked if he has had any improper contact with the utilities. Hilarious!\n\nPROTEST OPPORTUNITY FOR Shutdown Diablo ACTIVISTS!\n\nMichael Peevey, former CPUC president is to be "toasted" by industry insiders and "respectables" (who look the other way as crime is committed). \n\nTHIS IS AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY FOR Shutdown Diablo ACTIVISTS TO STAGE PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY, and JOIN WITH SAN BRUNO GAS EXPLOSION ACTIVISTS and those who are generally concerned about CPUC IMPROPRIETY AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!\n\nThe Diablo Canyon plant is far from public view and it is nearly impossible to stage rallies in the vicinity of the plant, so we MUST TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY!\n\nPRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY -- 5pm outside the Julia Morgan Ballroom with video recording of everyone who attending the Peevey "celebration"!\n\nHERE IS THE INFORMATION FROM THE OFFICIAL INVITATION:\n\n"A reception begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 12. Dinner follows at 7 p.m. The gala is slated for the Julia Morgan Ballroom inside the Merchant Exchange Building in San Francisco’s financial district, right on the cable-car line. It will be sponsored by a host of current and former energy executives and lobbyists, as well as political appointees, union leaders and others."\n\nIt is very important to mobilize activists who live near this event!! SLO is not that far away. San Bruno is only a few BART stops away!! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!\n\nProsecute Peevey Rally\nhttp://www.copswiki.org/Common/ProsecutePeeveyRally\n\nFront of the Merchant Exchange Building at 465 California street, where the rally will occur \n\nMap showing location of rally site \n\nFormer CPUC President Michael Peevey \nWHAT: Press Conference and Rally outside the location where Industry insiders will toast former CPUC President Michael Peevey. \n • At the same time, FBI Investigators have obtained physical evidence from the homes of Michael Peevey and Brian Cherry, former PG&E official.\nWHEN: February 12, 2015, 5pm to 7pm \nWHERE: Merchant Exchange Building, 465 California, San Francisco, CA 94104 (near corner of California and Montgomery) \n • Use Montgomery or Embarcadero BART stations.\nWHO: Anyone can attend! Bring signs and loud voices! Definitely anyone in these groups: \n • Shutdown Diablo activists\n • Shut San Onofre activists\n • Smart Meter activists\n • San Bruno Accident activists\n • Stop The Unfair Settlement activists\n • Watchers of the California Public Utilities Commission\n • Occupy protestors\n • Media and Reporters!\nSPEAKERS: List is being finalized now! \nRVSP: at Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/326272987565148\nREAD ABOUT THE IMPROPRIETY AND LIKELY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF PEEVEY AND HIS CRONIES! \n • Report of Malfeasance and Institutional Corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission -- Mike Aguirre and Mia Severson, Aguirre & Severson, 2015-01-07 Ray Lutzcontributed to this paper.\n • "Shut up, goddammit" Listen to Peevey lose his cool when he is asked if he has had any improper contact with the utilities. Hilarious!\nPROTEST OPPORTUNITY FOR Shutdown Diablo ACTIVISTS!\nMichael Peevey, former CPUC president is to be "toasted" by industry insiders and "respectables" (who look the other way as crime is committed). THIS IS AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY FOR Shutdown Diablo ACTIVISTS TO STAGE PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY, and JOIN WITH SAN BRUNO GAS EXPLOSION ACTIVISTS and those who are generally concerned about CPUC IMPROPRIETY AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!\nThe Diablo Canyon plant is far from public view and it is nearly impossible to stage rallies in the vicinity of the plant, so we MUST TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY!\nPRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY -- 5pm outside the Julia Morgan Ballroom with video recording of everyone who attending the Peevey "celebration"!\nHERE IS THE INFORMATION FROM THE OFFICIAL INVITATION: \n • A reception begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 12. Dinner follows at 7 p.m.\n • The gala is slated for the Julia Morgan Ballroom inside the Merchant Exchange Building in San Francisco’s financial district, right on the cable-car line. It will be sponsored by a host of current and former energy executives and lobbyists, as well as political appointees, union leaders and others.\nIt is very important to mobilize activists who live near this event!! SLO is not that far away. San Bruno is only a few BART stops away. \n\nCrooks Toast Crooks In San Francisco-Going Away Party For Former Corrupt Bully and CPUC Chair Michael Peevey\nhttp://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/30/peevey-gala-invitations-amid-probe/\nEx-regulator to be toasted by industry\n\nCelebration for former utilities chief comes amid state corruption investigation\n\nBy Jeff McDonald5:46 p.m.Jan. 30, 2015\nEven as state investigators rummaged through Michael Peevey’s kitchen, office and garage this week, many of the people he regulated as president of the California Public Utilities Commission have been invited to spend $250 apiece to toast him at a farewell dinner.\n\n“You’re invited to join us in honoring Mike Peevey,” the invitation reads. “A lifetime of service to the people of California.”\n\nA reception begins at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12. Dinner follows at 7 p.m.\n\nThe gala is slated for the Julia Morgan Ballroom inside the Merchant Exchange Building in San Francisco’s financial district, right on the cable-car line. It will be sponsored by a host of current and former energy executives and lobbyists, as well as political appointees, union leaders and others.\n\nInvitations to the salute for Peevey, who served 12 years as the top utility regulator in California, went out just as agents from the state Attorney General’s Office executed a search warrant at his La Canada Flintridge home near Los Angeles, and the home of one of the utility executives he was close to.\n\nPeevey is front and center in a public-corruption investigation that began after emails released last year showed he regularly met with and communicated privately with executives from companies he was charged with regulating.\n\nAccording to a search warrant obtained by U-T Watchdog and posted online earlier today, investigators seized bank records, computers, files, thumb drives and six years’ worth of day planners from Peevey’s Los Angeles area home on Tuesday.\n\nThey also found “RSG notes on Hotel Bristol stationary,” which appears to be a reference to replacement steam generators — the flawed project that led to the premature decommissioning of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.\n\nRatepayers in San Diego County and Southern California are to pay $3.3 billion out of the $4.7 billion in shutdown costs as a result of the faulty steam generators that leaked in 2012 and prompted the plant to close for good in 2013, a formula some have complained is unfair to the public.\n\nThe search warrant says Peevey is suspected of felony corruption for his dealings with utilities. The same day agents searched his home, they searched the home of Pacific Gas & Electric executive Brian Cherry.\n\nInvitations to the dinner were sent to notable energy industry leaders up and down the state.\n\nRSVPs were requested by today, and were directed to Susan Kennedy, a member of the California Health Benefit Exchange board and longtime chief of staff to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\n\nKennedy did not respond to questions about the event.\n\nMoney raised will go to the Goldman School at the University of California Berkeley, where Peevey sits on a board of advisers.\n\nMore than 80 gala co-sponsors include Kathleen Brown, the former state treasurer and Sempra Utilities board member who is also Gov. Jerry Brown’s sister.\n\nThe governor’s office, which has multiple representatives scheduled to attend, had no comment when asked about the event.\n\nBrown appointees listed as sponsors include Robert Weissenmiller of the Energy Commission, Mary Nichols of the Air Resources Board, Denice Tyrell of the Public Utilities Commission and Dan Richard of the High-Speed Rail Authority.\n\nOne of the most significant co-sponsors may be Michael Picker, whom Brown appointed president of the utilities commission when Peevey stepped away.\n\nU-T Watchdog reported this month on emails between Peevey and the companies he was supposed to regulate, showing he arranged meetings with them at expensive restaurants, dropped commission business to meet with them in private and accommodated their requests to delay commission business to their advantage.\n\nPicker told U-T Watchdog the revelations were “troubling and very painful,” and he pledged to restore the reputation of commission he now runs.\n\nPicker went on to open his first meeting of the commission with prepared remarks using similar language in reference to his predecessor.\n\nPicker said the emails “show easy access to CPUC decision makers by utilities and other interested parties. They are troubling and very painful to read. But they are being carefully looked at by federal and state investigations, in which we are fully cooperating.”\n\nPicker pledged to “move the agency forward with openness and transparency.”\n\nThis afternoon, Picker defended his co-sponsorship of the Peevey celebration in a statement to the U-T.\n\n“He’s the former president and worthy of my respect for his many accomplishments,” Picker said in the statement.\n\nThe commission president did not respond to questions about whether his sponsorship of the event sends the wrong message to ratepayers or the public.\n\nFormer San Francisco mayor and state Assembly speaker Willie Brown will serve as emcee for the evening, according to the invitation. Brown subsequently became a lobbyist for Pacific Gas & Electric.\n\nOther notable sponsors include former Edison executive Bruce Foster, public-relations executive Dan Solem and Jan Smutney Jones, a lobbyist who represents energy producers.\n\nFoster featured prominently in the U-T Watchdog story about Peevey’s emails with energy executives, as the regulator skipped commission business to lunch with Foster and delayed key decisions Foster and Edison were interested in. Foster called Peevey “such a dear” and “a great friend.”\n\nThis afternoon, under a court order, the utilities commission was to release some 65,000 additional emails. Spokeswoman Terrie Prosper said the records are being reviewed for any improper conduct.\n\n“If it is discovered that any employee engaged in a practice that appears inconsistent with CPUC rules or state law, a further fact-finding will take place and appropriate corrective action, if needed, will be taken,” she said.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/07/18768196.php SUMMARY:Arrest And Jail Corrupt Former PUC Chair Michael Peevey & Cronies-Press Conferen LOCATION:Merchant Exchange Building, 465 California, San Francisco, CA 94104 (near corner of California and Montgomery)\nUse Montgomery or Embarcadero BART stations. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/07/18768196.php DTSTART:20150213T010000Z DTEND:20150213T030000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR