District Attorney Mike Ramsey held a news conference on PG&E's guilty plea on Tuesday where he discussed the newly released indictment report.
84 times this morningãpg&e ceo william johnson pled guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughterã everyone of them died in the camp fire.
Action news now reporter kristian lopez has been looking into the indictment report just released by the da's office.
Kristian could anyone face any jail time?
The law says that when it comes to negligent homicide a corporate officer would only go to jail if they personally knew of the crime.
But pg&e will pay millions of dollars in fines.
The investigation into the camp fire cause began almost immediately after the fire burned through the ridge killing 84 peopleã destroying thousands of buildings and even more lives.
During that year long investigation the grand jury questioned about a hundred witnesses and looked at documents and pictures that showed pg&e's culpability in causing the camp fire.
When it was finished - the jury found enough evidence to indict pg&e with 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of felony causing a fire.
They talked about if there was enough evidence to indict any individual pg&e personnel or executive.
The law says that when it comes to negligent homicide a corporate officer would only go to jail if they personally knew of the crime.
But pg&e will pay millions of dollars in fines.
The investigation into the camp fire cause began almost immediately after the fire burned through the ridge killing 84 peopleã destroying thousands of buildings and even more lives.
During that year long investigation the grand jury questioned about a hundred witnesses and looked at documents and pictures that showed pg&e's culpability in causing the camp fire.
When it was finished - the jury found enough evidence to indict pg&e with 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of felony causing a fire.
They talked about if there was enough evidence to indict any individual pg&e personnel or executive.
"no one within the pg&e corporation, no individual was found to be guilty of that negligence... therefore no individual is going to go to jail."
Some of the evidence showed that the tower where the camp fire started had years of wear and tear on it.
Jurors found that over the past 50 years pg&e employees shoul* have been able to see the wear but no one documented itãor fixed it.
And since nobody noticed the wear it would be impossible to prove any single person was negligent.
Ramsey says now the company will be monitored to make sure they are doing everything they are supposed to as far as maintaining and improving its equipment.
He says any mistakes could cause individuals to be liable in the future.
Pg&e has declined probation meaning they face the maximum punishment, a fine of more than 3 million dollars.
Tomorrow the families of those killed give their impact statements.
Sentencing is thursday.
Live in oroville kristian lopez action news now coverage you can count on.
Pg&e also has to pay*15 millio* dollars over the next 5 years to put water back into the miocene canal.#### the
District Attorney Mike Ramsey held a news conference on PG&E's guilty plea on Tuesday where he discussed the newly released..