The state agency overseeing the investigation of the Public Utilities Commission official said five issues were partially substantiated, but it declined to provide more details.

A senior official with the Public Utilities Commission accused of fostering a toxic workplace was let off the hook after an independent investigation concluded most claims against him were unsubstantiated.

But the state agency announcing the findings provided few details about the case, saying only that 5 of 20 issues related to the allegations against the PUC’s chief of policy and research Randy Baldemor had been partially substantiated but were not “considered to be determinative of the overall claim or issue.”

Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Director Nadine Ando offered only vague references to th

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