SFist Blotter

See The Lady From Shanghai tonight at the Balboa's Reel SF Festival!

A true lady from Shanghai, Julie Lee got indicted by the feds yesterday, for mail fraud and witness tampering, over her alleged money laundering for Kevin Shelley. Her attorney says he's never seen someone get busted by the city, the state, and the feds. Yahtzee!

We are so sorry that SFist wasn't around at the time of the Noel-Knoller dog mauling case (RIP, Diane Whipple). The best were those line drawings! Hott! But we'll be covering the latest round of legal shenanigans: the California Court of Appeals just reinstated the second-degree murder charges against Knoller, ruling that the DA didn't need to prove that Knoller knew that the dogs would kill someone, just that she knew she couldn't control them. We've said it before, we'll say it again -- you name a dog "Bane," you probably have some kind of idea it might be a crazed killer!

And we're going to cover this latest item briefly, but reluctantly, and we were really hoping not to cover it at all: the son of Oakland City Counsel president Ignacio de la Fuente was arrested on two charges of rape last week. De la Fuente, considered a leading candidate for Oakland City mayor, was understandably pretty upset about the news and has been accepting the condolences of the Oakland community. When asked how this would affect his mayoral chances, de la Fuente said, "The last thing on my mind is the mayor's race."