The California Public Utilities Commission does not have a good understanding of how much money it’s owed or even who owes it money, a new state audit found, validating some of the concerns raised by the agency’s former executive director, who was fired last year after alleging that $200 million in fines and fees was missing.
The audit, conducted by the state’s Department of Finance, found that much of the $200 million that former executive director Alice Stebbins said could not be accounted for had been collected, but it called the agency’s billing system “inaccurate and incomplete.”
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