SF Politics Democratic Operative Alexis Podesta Wore a Wire In FBI Probe In Sacramento A well known Democratic figure in Sacramento, Alexis Podesta, reportedly wore a wire as part of her cooperation with federal investigators as they homed in on former Newsom chief of staff and former Xavier Becerra aide Dana Williamson.
SF News Assessor In Contra Costa County With Troubling Past Gets Raided By FBI The longtime county assessor in Contra Costa County, who just days earlier had symbolically passed the torch to his right-hand man after decades of being reelected himself, saw his home and office raided by the feds on Tuesday morning, and so did his successor.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
Business & Tech In OpenAI Trial, Elon Musk Really Wants Jury to Know That AI Might Kill Us All He may just be trying to prove a point for the sake of his case, but Elon Musk has reportedly been harping on AI doomsday scenarios in his federal court testimony.
SF News NYC SantaCon Organizer Accused of Diverting $1 Million In Donations to Personal Account When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
SF News Woman Sues Luxury SF Apartments Where Alleged Sex Trafficking Took Place, Says They Knew A California woman filed a federal lawsuit against a company that owns two upscale apartment complexes in SF’s South Beach neighborhood — Avalon Mission Bay and South Beach Marina Apartments, saying they were aware that she was being sex trafficked there at age 17
Business & Tech East Bay Man Arrested for Alleged Scheme to Smuggle Nvidia GPUs and AI Chips to China The DOJ arrested a San Leandro man and three others as part of an alleged conspiracy to evade US trade laws by smuggling powerful Nvidia GPUs and AI chips to China through Thailand and Malaysia. The man allegedly bragged that his dad did the same work for the CCP.
SF News Former North Bay Cop Found Guilty of Posing as Federal Agent to Rob Drivers of Weed, Cash A federal jury on Friday convicted former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker on all six counts tied to a yearslong scheme in which he and other officers illegally stopped drivers on Highway 101 and stole their cannabis and cash — prior to the legalization of recreational cannabis.
SF News Leaders of Cult-y 'Orgasmic Meditation' Group OneTaste Convicted In Forced Labor Trial Two women who ran the San Francisco-based wellness company OneTaste, which promoted the physical and spiritual health benefits of the female orgasm, were convicted Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.
SF News Fraud, Fake Identities, and a Tesla: GameOn Founders Face Federal Charges San Francisco AI startup founders accused of years-long scheme involving falsified financials, forged emails, and a $4.2M home—all while failing to pay employees.
SF News One of the Four 'Grizzly Scout' Boogaloo Militia Men Who Conspired to Obstruct Carrillo Case Gets 10 Years In Prison One of the four men who participated in on- and off-line anti-government conspiracy and military-style drills with convicted Boogaloo murderer Steven Carrillo has now been sentenced.
SF News Air Force Sergeant Turned Boogaloo Murderer Steven Carrillo Takes Plea, Will Be Sentenced Friday The former Air Force Sergeant who terrorized both Santa Cruz and Oakland almost exactly two years ago this week, on a violent tear inspired by the internet-based Boogaloo movement to kill members of law enforcement, is set to be sentenced for one of his murders.
Business & Tech Daly City Man Pleads Guilty In Rideshare Fraud Scheme Involving Identity Theft, Brazilian Nationals Two men, one of them residing in Daly City, pleaded guilty this week in a scheme caught by the feds that involved the creation and sale of fake driver accounts on rideshare and delivery apps that enabled foreign nationals to drive for these services in the U.S.
SF News As Racketeering Case Gains Murder Charge, Shrimp Boy Still Asserts Innocence It was 2006 when the Chron gracefully danced around Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow's role in the death of Chinese community leader Allen Leung. Nearly a decade later, what many have since implied is
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Can I Be Dismissed? On February 19, Ed Jew's current attorney, Stuart Hanlon, will, ahem, "ask a judge to throw out the federal criminal case against the ex-San Francisco supervisor." You know, his case of bribery, mail
