SF Politics Fired City Hall Director Back In Hot Water Over $19K In City Funds Used for Her Son’s UCLA Tuition If you thought it was bad when an SF City Hall director got fired over using city money to pay for a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard house rental, wait ‘til you hear that she also got $19,000 of your tax dollars to send her kid to UCLA grad school.
SF Politics Update: Yet Another Improper Spending Scandal Rocks SF City Hall, Commission Director Hastily Resigns The curious matter of a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard house rental paid for with your tax dollars had led to the resignation of an SF City Hall commission director, and she appears to have also approved more than a million dollars in contracts to a man that lives with her.
SF News San Jose Firefighter Strip Club Report Made Public, Firefighters Claim They Can’t Remember Visiting Club The full investigative report into last year’s scandalous San Jose Fire Department strip club incident is now public, and while there are some possibly plausible excuses for the first strip club visit, firefighters claim they cannot remember visiting the second club.
SF News Oakland Gone Wild: DUI, Child Porn Charges For Police And Fire Department Officers Wednesday was a hell of a day for the Oakland Police and Fire Departments, as today we have separate reports of disturbing DUI and child pornography charges for officers from both organizations. While
SF News $15 Billion Volkswagen Emission Scandal Settlement Approved By SF Judge A federal judge based in San Francisco just approved a $15 billion settlement in the emission-cheating scandal that rocked the German-based car manufacturer Volkswagen. The Associated Press reports that this is the single
SF News Jail Sentence For Former SFPD Officer Who Illegally Searched SRO The former San Francisco police officer convicted of illegally entering and searching a SRO in 2010 has been sentenced to over a year in jail. Bay City News reports that Arshad Razzak claimed
SF News Now A UC Berkeley Chancellor Has Been Accused Of Misusing Public Funds A high-ranking UC Berkeley employee has been accused of misconduct, but for once it doesn't involve sexual harassment. The Los Angeles Times reports that UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has been accused of
SF News Video Released Of East Bay State Senate Candidate Shoplifting At Neiman-Marcus San Francisco has seen its fair share of political scandals — Ed Lee, for example, was never really elected to office, ran a fabricated grassroots campaign, and now, among other ostensibly benign wonk atrocities,
SF News California Senate Votes To Suspend Leland Yee The California Senate voted 28-1 Friday to suspend troubled San Francisco and San Mateo County Senator Leland Yee from his duties. (Sen. Joel Anderson was the only no vote.) Charges against Yee include
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: Suspension, Shrimp Boy, And A M.I.L.F. Today in Oh No, Leland Yee!, we've got a few new tidbits to offer since the nascent scandal broke on Wednesday — namely, Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow is now an animated crustacean, Yee gave
SF News 5 SF Police Officers Indicted For Extortion, Drug Dealing Boom. Today five active police officers and one former cop were indicted on charges of extortion, drug dealing, and theft, and falsifying police reports (just to name a few) while working for the
SF News State Parks Director Resigns After Investigation Reveals $54 Million In Hidden Funds A new investigation has discovered that the California Parks and Recreation Department kept nearly $54 million in surplus funds hidden for almost 12 years, even while budget cuts threatened to close parks across
SF News New 49er Brandon Jacobs Like To Drive Really Fast New 49er Brandon Jacobs is caught up in a scandal involving New Jersey state troopers who escorted caravans of luxury cars at extraordinarily high speeds (100-120 mph). According to the Star-Ledger, the police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Allegedly Scandalous NYC Chef Speaking at Herbst Theater This Week Now, this is our kind of gastronome. Gabrielle Hamilton, James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Prune (in New York City's East Village), will speak on Thursday at the Herbst Theatre as part
SF News Schwarzenegger Mistress Speaks Out, Poses in Tabloid Photo with Son Hello Magazine snagged the first shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger's secret son, Joseph, 13, and an exclusive interview his former housekeeper/mistress, Mildred Baena. It is, of course, most sensational. And here's our favorite
misc Builder of Oakland's Fox Theater Once Imprisoned For 'White Slavery' On this relatively slow local news day in which most everyone is out of the office, the Oakland Tribune is running this amusing scandal from the archives about Maury Diggs, the builder of
SF News Top Ten SF Sex Scandals? Another list? Does this mean we can look forward to a more list-generating Chronicle? Because this is a Heart publication we can get behind. Today, one of San Francisco's daily paper of note
