• National Grid will pay $1.6 million after settling a case with New York regulators.
• An 18-month investigation by the state's Inspector General's office found that state Public Service Commission staff had improperly accepted gifts from the British-based utility.
• Two PSC engineers, Joseph Klesin and Carlos Ortiz, resigned after the the report found that PSC employees had accepted $7,000 in gifts over eight years.

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National Grid has agreed to a $1.67 million settlement with state regulators after the British-based utility was found to have showered state workers with thousands of dollars of improper gifts, including free meals and rounds of golf.

The state Inspector General's office, which conducted an 18-month investigation into te allegations, found that safety staff at the state Public Service Commission accepted gifts from the utilities they were responsible for overseeing more than 200 times between 2002 and 2010. ...