SF Politics Sup. Haney’s Bid to Break Up Public Works Likely Headed for November Ballot A new department would have one job — keeping our haggard sidewalks clean — under Supervisor Matt Haney’s proposal to break up the scandal-plagued Department of Public Works.
SF Politics Nuru Doled Out More Than $10 Million in City Contracts With Zero Oversight, Says City Controller The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”
SF Politics Feds Charge SF Permit Expediter Walter Wong With Fraud; Wong Takes Plea The latest update in the broadening City Hall corruption scandal in San Francisco is that federal prosecutors have formally filed fraud and money laundering charges against local contractor and noted permit expediter Walter Wong.
SF Politics Feds Charge Three More People Linked to Mohammed Nuru and City Hall Corruption Probe It's been four months and a pandemic later, but we are still talking about the rampant, some say "low level," corruption that has apparently existed at San Francisco City Hall for decades
SF Politics Lefty O'Doul's Owner Named In City Hall Corruption Probe Enters Plea Deal With Feds Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur who was arrested alongside the former director of Public Works in a federal corruption investigation in January, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges and is cooperating with investigators.
SF Politics 14 Subpoenas Issued By City Attorney Relating to 555 Fulton Project The latest update in the ongoing City Hall saga stemming from a federal corruption investigation is that the City Attorney's own investigation has just issued 14 new subpoenas pertaining to the much delayed 555 Fulton project in Hayes Valley.
SF Politics ‘Girlfriend 1’ Identified in Mohammed Nuru Scandal, And It’s Not London Breed The Chronicle has managed to identify “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI criminal complaint against Mohammed Nuru, and it’s high-ranking mayor’s office director Sandra Zuniga.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Says Nuru Situation Is 'A Learning Experience' Days after the mayor revealed her longtime personal relationship with former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru — who resigned last week amid a federal investigation — she's saying that she now is "re-evaluating" all of her personal relationships.
SF Politics Invoice Suggests Mayor Had Parade Float Paid For By Local Restaurateur A new piece of evidence suggests that Mayor London Breed may have received an undisclosed gift from local restaurateur Nick Bovis, the alleged co-conspirator who was indicted by the feds last month along with former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
SF Politics City Attorney Is Investigating Private Companies That Allegedly 'Funneled' Money to DPW Holiday Parties Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
SF News Supervisor Haney Wants To Break Up Public Works, Create New Agency That Just Cleans Streets As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Has Resigned From His Post at Public Works While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
SF Politics Report: Nuru Defaulted to Loyalty As Feds Closed In, Alerting City Hall Friends We're now learning that federally charged Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru may have been trying to watch the backs of "bigger fish" in City Hall when he placed a phone call following his initial arrest by the FBI.
SF Politics Was Mohammed Nuru's Self-Propelled PR Machine To Blame For San Francisco's Filth? The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
SF Politics City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
SF Politics Scandal-Embroiled DPW Head Still Not Fired, Possibly Still Eligible for Pension The City Hall director accused of multiple bribery and fraud charges has not yet been officially disciplined, but Supervisor Matt Haney got a nasty letter for publicly saying that Mohammed Nuru should be disciplined.
SF Politics SFO Commissioner Resigns Amid Fallout From DPW Scandal The latest update from the unfolding scandal is that 24-year veteran of the Airport Commission has resigned, ostensibly for health reasons, after her name was connected with the FBI's investigation.
SF News Development at Center of Nuru Case Was the Much-Delayed 555 Fulton In Hayes Valley The details and puzzle pieces are continuing to coalesce following Tuesday's news of federal charges against Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
SF Politics DPW Director Mohammed Nuru Accused Of Scheme To Get Bar Owner City Contract For Homeless Housing It's like the "Shrimp Boy" scandal all over again! Only this time it involves the Department of Public Works and the guy who owns Lefty O'Doul's.
SF Politics [Update] SF's Public Works Director and Local Bar Owner Charged In FBI Corruption Probe Department of Public Works Director and longtime Willie Brown pal Mohammed Nuru was arrested by the FBI on Monday in a federal corruption probe that apparently also involves local bar owner Nick Bovis.
SF News Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run
