California prosecutors are poised to charge the state’s largest utility company with an array of crimes, including murder and manslaughter if it is found responsible for starting two recent deadly wildfires.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a new filing that if Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which provides electricity to about 16 million customers, was found to have mismanaged or failed to maintain power lines, it would face a wide range of charges.

Prosecutors wrote they were prepared to pursue a wide range of charges, including minor offenses, felonies or misdemeanors, and implied-malice murder and involuntary manslaughter.

This is just a ploy.

It’s all going to be pled down to a “cost of doing business” level of fines, likely with the state legislature passing laws limiting the utility behemoth’s liability, just like they did last time.

Still, I dream of their senior executives being frog-marched out of their offices in hand cuffs.