Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy.

Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay, you caught me, I don't actually live here"), but his federal criminal extortion case ("a man can't get a $40,000 bubble tea once in awhile?") continues apace. In his federal case, Ed's now asked for a hearing on whether his former lawyer, the Iraqi minister of information Steven Gruel, committed ethical violations.

Namely, Ed's now claiming that the whole mess was all a "calculated attack" by Ed's Sunset-area political enemies Jaynry Mak and Leland Yee, who ensnared Gruel into their nefarious plan to get the feds to investigate Ed's alleged Quickly shakedown. Gruel then, according to Ed, turned around and ensnared Ed into hiring him as his lawyer. Nefarious!!

Gruel, for what it's worth, says he fully informed Ed about his involvement in the initial investigations before agreeing to represent Ed, and Ed signed a waiver saying he didn't mind. And a third party legal expert that the Examiner called said Ed's motion was "silly." Aw, we miss the Ed Jew silly! These latest city government outrages are too serious to be fun.

We found this picture in the SFist Flickr stream, by Agent Akit.