PG&E pleads guilty to criminal charges in fatal 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County

Bay Area News Group

PG&E on Monday disclosed it has pleaded guilty to scores of criminal charges arising from the deadly Camp Fire of 2018 that roared through Butte County, an inferno caused by the disgraced utility.

Under the agreement that PG&E reached with the state of California and the Butte County District Attorney’s Office, PG&E admitted its guilt in the Camp Fire, which caused 85 fatalities, according to a regulatory filing by PG&E with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, the utility has agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of unlawfully causing a fire,” PG&E stated in the SEC filing.

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