SF Politics Real Estate Magnate Victor Makras the Latest Indicted by Feds in SF Public Corruption Probe Another fraud charge has arrived for ex-PUC chief Harlan Kelly, but the shocking shoe to drop here is a federal indictment of politically connected real estate investor Victor Makras.
SF Politics Oakland Businessman Becomes Second Contractor to Receive Jail Time In SF City Hall Corruption Probe A businessman who admitted to conspiring over multiple years to bribe former SF Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru in order to gain financial benefits for his company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
SF Politics Mayor and Board of Supervisors Compete to Punish SF Dept. of Building Inspection The San Francisco Board of Supervisors did some grilling of the acting head of the Department of Building Inspection (DBI) on Tuesday, and Mayor London Breed followed up on Monday with her own executive order demanding changes to the department and its permit tracking system.
SF Politics Recology's SF Companies Charged With Fraud In Nuru Scandal, Agree to Pay $36M In Penalties to Feds San Francisco's trash and recycling company has admitted to bribing former SF Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru to the tune of $900,000, and it does so just as the federal government was charging it with conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
SF Politics Carla Short, New Interim SF Public Works Chief, To Assume Duties Monday With one interim director of SF's Department of Public Works on his way out, Mayor London Breed and City Administrator Carmen Chu have appointed a replacement, and it's someone with 17 years experience in the department.
SF Politics SF Dept. of Public Works Acting Director Jumps Ship, Takes Job at BART Alaric Degrafinried, the acting director of San Francisco's troubled Department of Public Works, had once said he planned to vie for the permanent title of head of the department. But in the 18 months since he took over, he changed his mind.
SF Politics SF Ethics Commission Fines Mayor London Breed Nearly $23,000 For Violations Including Gift From Nuru Mayor London Breed agreed on Monday to pay a nearly $23,000 fine issued by the San Francisco Ethics Commission, which includes individual fine amounts stemming from several ethics violation during her mayoral term to date.
SF Politics Former Recology Exec Takes Plea Deal In City Hall Corruption Case, Will Cooperate With Feds Another figure in the ever-unspooling SF City Hall corruption scandal has agreed to plead guilty to bribing former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and this means one more cooperating witness for the feds in the cases against Nuru and potentially others.
SF Politics The Recology Portal To Sign Up For Your ‘Mohammed Nuru Rebate’ Is Now Open That $100 million in settlement dollars from allegedly mistaken over-charges is now going out to Recology customers over an online portal, though the company claims they’ll send you a check if you do nothing before July 30.
SF News Nuru Scandal Cont'd: Former Public Works Employee Arrested By DA For Allegedly Shady Merch Contract Worth $263K The latest development in the now 18-month unfolding of both federal and local investigations into corrupt dealings at San Francisco City Hall is the arrest of a former high-ranking Department of Public Works official by the SF District Attorney's Office.
SF Politics Scandal-Plagued Ex-SF Employees Still Making More Money Than You On Their Pensions Mohammed Nuru, Harlan Kelly, and Tom Hui are still pulling pensions as high as $21,000 a month, despite leaving their jobs in disgrace amidst federal corruption probes.
SF Politics Details About Nuru Arrest Remain Sketchy as Supervisors React With Terms Like 'Unravel' and 'Downfall' It may be that we won't ever get a completely reliable description of events of what happened with disgraced former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru to lead to his arrest Wednesday on a robbery charge. But that hasn't stopped some city officials from reacting.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Arrested After Allegedly Pulling a Knife While Volunteering at Food Bank Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was reportedly arrested Wednesday morning following a strange-sounding incident at the SF-Marin Food Bank warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
SF Politics Feds Charge Second Recology Executive For Bribery as City Controller Calls to End Their Monopoly A former Recology VP gets charged for bribing and laundering money to Mohammed Nuru, and the City Controller is calling to just break up the whole Recology arrangement.
SF Politics Former Nuru Girlfriend and 'Fix-It Team' Head Sandra Zuniga Pleads Guilty In Federal Corruption Probe Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
SF Politics Recology Must Reimburse SF Customers $100 Million For Alleged Mohammed Nuru Bribes SF households will be reimbursed an average of $190 by Recology, amidst charges of bribes to the disgraced former Public Works director that persuaded him to approve rate hikes.
SF Politics City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, who did business with SF's Public Works Dept under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that became public early last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF Politics Willie Brown Doesn't Get the Drama With the City Hall Scandal, Feels Bad For Friends Facing Federal Charges Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who is often credited with wielding influence over city government and development long after his tenure as mayor ended in the early 2000s, has weighed in on the latest corruption scandal at City Hall in a new interview.
SF Politics Drug Test Ordered By Judge Following Search of City Official's Home and Suspected Cocaine Discovery A new and embarrassing twist came in the City Hall scandal chapter involving former SF Public Utilities chief Harlan Kelly as prosecutors say that cocaine was found in the FBI's search of his home.
SF Politics City Administrator Naomi Kelly Takes Leave of Absence Amid Scandal, Husband's Indictment Following Monday's bombshell announcement of charges against SF Public Utilities Commission Director Harlan Kelly, following an FBI raid of his home, we now get word that his wife, City Administrator Naomi Kelly, has voluntarily — or under pressure from the mayor — taken a leave of absence.
SF Politics SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Charged with Fraud in Expanding City Hall Scandal, Has Home Raided by FBI Bigger fish are frying in the ever-expanding Mohammed Nuru DPW scandal, as the head of SF’s Public Utilities Commission has his home raided, gets charged with fraud, and possibly faces 20 years in prison.
SF Politics Recology Exec Ensnared In Nuru Scandal, Accused By Feds Of Long-Term Bribery Scheme It looks like federal investigators have snagged a slightly bigger fish in the unfolding SF City Hall corruption scandal that began with the January arrest of former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and it's an executive at longtime San Francisco waste management vendor Recology.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Files For Bankruptcy Amid Owner's Legal Troubles Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur named in a federal indictment earlier this year stemming from an FBI probe of corruption in SF City Hall, has now filed for bankruptcy for one of this businesses, longtime hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's.
SF Politics Two City Contractors In Nuru Scandal Probe Take Plea Deals The ongoing federal prosecution of City Hall corruption schemes that, thus far, have all had alleged ties back to former Department of Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru has netted two more guilty pleas this week.
