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People v. PG&E
by Tom Nadeau
Paperback, 116 pages
Comstock Bonanza Press, January 1, 1998
When a wildfire burned homes and 500 acres of land around the historic town of Rough and Ready, the local district attorney filed 767 criminal charges against the nation’s largest investor-owned utility. Special prosecutor Jenny E. Ross used PG&E’s own documents to convict the utility giant. A prize-winning reporter describes the landmark trial of the nation’s largest investor-owned utility, accused by a back-country district attorney of causing a multimillion dollar wildfire in the county where PG&E was born. A great (true) tale, wonderfully told.
“As a guy who covered his share of trials, I can say [Nadeau’s] reporting of the Trauner [Fire] case was simply outstanding. … The windup on [the] story on the jury’s verdict is a classic—in fact the whole story is a masterpiece. … vastly superior to coverage by the news media generally.” —Tom Arden, retired Sacramento Bee columnist and reporter.
About the Author
Currently a staff writer for The Daily Recorder in Sacramento, Tom Nadeau has covered crime, courts and politics for numerous Northern California daily newspapers, including the Yuba-Sutter Independent-Herald, the Humboldt Times-Standard, the Chico Enterprise-Record, The Union in Grass Valley and Nevada City, and the Yuba-Sutter Appeal-Democrat. He has been a regular correspondent for the Sacramento Bee and the San Francisco Chronicle. His off-beat stories have appeared in such regional and national magazines as Comstock’s and The New Republic. Tom Nadeau’s investigative report on the double prosecution of a Russian émigré earned him the State Bar of California’s prestigious Gold Medallion Media Award in 1997.