OTHER NEWS - April 4, 1992

PUC Probe Expands: Widening an investigation that began with two employees’ falsified expense accounts, the California Public Utilities Commission was warned that as much as $10 million may have been fraudulently misappropriated from Southern California Edison Co. The PUC’s ratepayer advocates division asked the commission to set Edison’s current round of rates with the proviso that the company may have to make financial adjustments later--depending on how much, if any, of the $10 million is missing. The PUC investigation began after Edison fired two mid-level managers at its Long Beach field office last September, saying that each had falsified $10,000 to $15,000 in expenses.