AG’s Office Hands Entergy Early Christmas Present

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After reviewing uncontroverted evidence of criminal wrongdoing, Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell gifted Entergy with a nicely wrapped State of Vermont package (glowing?) with a fat green ribbon tied in every direction.

The deceit perpetrated against our elected representatives, Vermont ratepayers and public safety official is now safely bundled into a spent fuel pool. At the same time, the old adage — that there is an inverse relationship between the size of a Corporation’s wallet and the likelihood of accountability for its wrongdoing — has been enriched.  

About Caoimhin Laochdha

Central Vermont life-long civil liberties activist. I offset my carbon footprint by growing my own energy and riding my bicycle at least 8 months of the year. Every election cycle, since Gerald Ford's social promotion to the Oval Office, I've volunteered for at least one Democratic presidential campaign that ultimately finished in second (or lower) place.

7 thoughts on “AG’s Office Hands Entergy Early Christmas Present”

  2. Entergy and others deserve credit for the nature and extent of cooperation with the AGO investigation. There was one former ENVY employee who had worked as an in-house counsel but declined to be interviewed by either MLB or the AGO. Due perhaps to the passage of time, a number of individuals interviewed, including both ENVY employees and others, expressed a lack of clear recollection of the specifics of various conversations, statements and actions potentially key to an accurate understanding of issues relevant to the AGO investigation.

    I wonder whether other entitities and individuals investigated by the Atty. Gen’s office are equally gifted by “benefit of the doubt.”

  3. Since when is lying under oath a crime?  Certainly not here in Vermont.

    And lying under oath is certainly NOT a crime when talking about a deadly toxic facility like VY.

  4. The report itself is well worth reading, and is available at: http://www.atg.state.vt.us/ass…

    The Attorney General’s Office carefully describes what is required to successfully prosecute a perjury case, which includes the statement in question must have been made under oath, and it must have been willfully false. According to the AG report, statements made in public forums but not under oath cannot be prosecuted as perjury even if they are false. The AG report makes clear that misrepresentations did occur, and that Entergy had ample opportunity to correct the record but failed to do so in a timely manner.

    I believe the specific misrepresentations made at the PSB hearings may result in further sanctions by the PSB, even if they do not reach the level of criminal prosecution.

    The AG report highlights the two PSB statements in question, both made under oath, and concludes reasonably that they do not rise to the level of perjury. Nevertheless, the AG report concludes: “The AGO investigation, as did that of MLB, readily leads to the conclusion that ENVY and various of its personnel repeatedly misled State officials with direct misstatements and repeatedly failed to clarify misperceptions as to the existence of underground piping carrying radionuclides. These actions and inactions were at best negligent. But for reasons, including those stated in this report, the AGO presently lacks sufficient compelling evidence to establish that the crime of perjury or violations or other Vermont criminal statutes have been committed…”

  6. and now Obama is gifting the repugs with cuts to Social Security in return for nothing really. Following in his mentor’s (Joe Lieberman) footsteps in betraying us all.

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