SF News Have You Seen This Alleged Target Fraudster? It's been months since the suspect in a downtown fraud case committed his alleged crimes, but that doesn't mean the dogged investigators at the San Francisco Police Department are content to let the
SF News SEC: Giants Pitcher Jake Peavy Lost More Than $15M In Ponzi Scheme Jake Peavy, the 35-year-old pitcher for the Giants, has had a difficult spring on — and relatedly — off the mound. He's 2 and 6, for the record, and usually much more reliable. At issue:
SF News SF Hedge Fund Accused Of Selling Fake Pre-IPO Uber Shares, Spending Investors' Money At Strip Clubs A San Francisco hedge fund has been accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, with its CEO and a colleague spending their ill-gotten gains at strip clubs, casinos, and sporting events.
SF News SF Woman Arrested For Alleged Online Fundraising Scam To Treat Fake Cancer A woman once described by the SF Chronicle as an "accidental entrepreneur" is now cooling her heels in San Francisco County Jail, and faces accusations of raking in thousands of online funding bucks
SF News Man Accused Of Using Twitter To Manipulate Stock Prices A Scottish man is in trouble today, having been indicted yesterday by a San Francisco jury on charges of using Twitter to manipulate stock prices. Two companies were targeted in the 2013 scheme,
SF News Ed Lee Campaign Accused of Voting Fraud Mayor Ed Lee and SF Neighbor Alliance, the bogus grassroots effort that pooped out the cringe-worthy Run, Ed, Run campaign, are under fire this week after witnesses revealed to The Chronicle that they
SF News SF Bank Execs Charged With Bailout Fraud United Commercial Bank CEO Thomas Wu and vice presidents Ebrahim Shabudin and Thomas Yu were hit with federal charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission after accepting a whopping $298 million taxpayer bailout
SF News Glen Park Mother Fooled By Spanish Scammer A little fact-checking might've helped a Glen Park mother from essentially throwing away thousands of dollars this week. According to SF Weekly, 'A San Francisco woman living in Glen Park received a call
SF News Two Convicted of Posing as San Bruno Fire Victims Speaking of recent San Bruno fire news, 42-year-old Lisa Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith were convicted on Tuesday of trying to pass themselves off as victims in an effort to get relief aid.
SF News 4 San Bruno Fire Swindlers Arrested In a failed effort to get "free food and other aid," four people were arrested on Tuesday after allegedly posing as San Bruno explosion victims. SF Chronicle reports: "The four submitted driver's license
SF News North Beach 'Investment Consultant' Indicted for Bilking 60 Investors A North Beach 'investment consultant' named Joseph "Giuseppe" Viola was indicted in federal court in S.F. yesterday on multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft after defrauding at
SF News Poizner Proudly Announces Arrest of Former SFUSD Employee for Fraud The Republican gubernatorial candidates attack on San Francisco's wan morals continues unabated! Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced yesterday the arrest of former San Francisco Unified School District employee Leticia James Coral, 56, on
SF News San Francisco's Canopy Financial "a Complete Sham," Says TechCrunch Canopy Financial, "a pioneer in innovative healthcare banking technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services" at ranked no. 12 on the 2009 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies, is a total
SF News Bernie Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years for Ponzi Scheme Ponzi-schemer and former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange Bernard Madoff was handed a 150 year prison sentence by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin this morning. In the courtroom, Madoff explained
SF News Photos: Iran Election Protest, San Francisco, 6/20 Rumor has it there's more you can do to voice your support for Iranians protesting a fraudulent election than turning your Twitter avatar green. Take, for example, participating in a protest or a
SF News Ed Jew Sentenced to 5.5 Years In Prison "Former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew sentenced to five and a half years in prison for fraud & extortion," says CBS 5. The disgraced former supe, as most of you know by now,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Investigates: Olive Oil Fraud by Tiffany Maleshefski Counterfeit handbags and Burberry scarves are pretty easy to spot, mainly because some dude doubling as a street performer on Union Square is the one selling the goods. The other
SF News Best Comment Argument Ever Over At SFBG Oh man. Like... wow. This is entertaining, exciting stuff. Let's back up a bit: It all started last Friday after a not-so-innocent yet fraudulent slate card endorsing Migden boasting the SFBG logo (something
SF News Groovy, Odd Scam Hitting the Elderly Okay, we're not exactly sure how this works, but it's...bizarre. Seems that a trio of scammers are preying upon the elderly Chinese American community in SF (no, not Ed Jew). What's interesting
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Part II Oh, Ed. Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed. This does not seem speedy like you promised. Then again, you promised a lot of things. Sigh. After yesterday's whopping indictment by a federal grand jury,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Indicted It is done. According to the Chronicle, a "federal grand jury indicted suspended San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew today on charges of soliciting $80,000 in bribes from local businesses by threatening their
SF News SFist Blotter Oh No, Chris Kavanaugh! Berkeley's own Ed Jew, a Green Party member of the Berkeley rent board who was actually living (and litigating with his landlord) in Oakland, pled not guilty to three
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Duct Tape We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news! Fang qi means
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Newsom's Intervention "Enough is enough," Newsom said to reporters this morning. "He needs to do the right thing and step aside." Interesting words there, Gavin. Irony aside, the Mayor renewed his call for disgraced supervisor
SF News Oh No Chris Kavanagh!: Ed Jew Copycat It seems that he actually lived on 63rd Street in Oakland, where he was in the process of fighting his own eviction by new landlords, and in order to be on the board,
