<Li> During the storm, Con Edison used social media to get outage and restoration information out to customers . The company's Twitter account gained an extra 16,000 followers during the storm . </Li> <Li> Con Edison's subsidiary, Orange & Rockland Utilities, was criticized for its response to Hurricane Sandy . Some customers experienced a loss of electrical power for 11 days . </Li> <Li> 2014: On March 12, two apartment buildings exploded in East Harlem after a reported Con Edison gas leak . Eight people were killed in the massive explosion that reduced the conjoining buildings to rubble . </Li> <P> On January 14, 2009, eleven Con Edison supervisors were arrested for demanding more than $1 million in kickbacks related to work done by a construction company that was repairing the midtown stream pipe eruption of 2007 . According to federal prosecutors, the employees had approved payment for work that was unnecessary or not performed, and promised faster payment for some work performed by the construction company in exchange for the bribes . The FBI had two retired Con Edison employees and the president of the construction company wear recording devices that recorded the suspects demanding bribes of between $1000 to $5000 . Later that year Con Edison sued Brendan Maher, one of the construction supervisors who was arrested and later admitted taking bribes that the utility company claimed amounted to $10,000 . </P>

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