This is not just about California wildfire survivors. It is about justice, accountability, and preventing a dangerous precedent from spreading nationwide. In 2020, PG&E exited bankruptcy under a deal that created the PG&E Fire Victim Trust to compensate over 72,000 fire survivors. Victims were promised fairness. Instead, they’ve faced years of delays, withheld payments, and opaque management of $13.5 billion that was supposed to rebuild their lives. To this day, billions remain unaccounted for. Survivors are outmatched in bankruptcy court, many forced to represent themselves pro se without adequate legal counsel.
Judge Montali has repeatedly denied motions that would have allowed discovery or evidence to expose potential fraud and mismanagement.
Administrators like Cathy Yanni and BDO—already accused of mishandling funds—are now also overseeing the Maui fire settlements. If this pattern is not exposed and corrected, it will be repeated in disasters across the country.   This is not a partisan issue. It is about fairness, transparency, and protecting families devastated by corporate negligence. Whether you are a wildfire survivor or not, these injustices should alarm every American. If PG&E, the Fire Victim Trust, and any public officials or parties who aided PG&E’s protection and denied victims their full rights to compensation are not held accountable, the same playbook will be used again—leaving future disaster victims across the nation stranded. We are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to immediately investigate PG&E, the PG&E Fire Victim Trust, Judge Montali, and any officials or entities complicit in shielding PG&E from accountability. Every survivor deserves justice. Every taxpayer deserves transparency. Every community deserves protection from corporate negligence and political cover-ups.