SF Politics SF’s 10 Wildest Nonprofit Spending Scandals of the Last Five Years, Ranked This week’s blow-up of the SF Parks Alliance only underscores the staggering number of SF nonprofits with improper spending scandals, and other riches-to-rags financial improprieties that have happened here over the last five years.
SF News Judge Blasts Federal Prison For Providing Poor Medical Care, Lets SF Scandal Figure Nick Bovis Out on Home Release Nick Bovis, one of the first people involved in the San Francisco City Hall bribery scandal to be arrested alongside Mohammed Nuru as the scandal unfolded five years ago, is getting out of prison a couple months early.
SF News Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Makes First Appearance In Federal Court Recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first court appearance at a procedural hearing Thursday in federal court in Oakland, and the judge seemed to be throwing some shade in her direction.
SF Politics Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is, Indeed, Getting Indicted Less than 24 hours after the FBI raided the home of another East Bay politician in connection with an apparently broad-ranging corruption scandal, we learn that former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is getting federally indicted.
SF Politics Lurie Administration Faces First Potential Scandal as DUI Accusation Surfaces About Public Safety Chief Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
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 FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Not sure what's going on here, but hours after a shooting at Lake Merritt, and less than a day after signatures were verified in a recall campaign against her, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF Politics Ex-SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Sentenced to Four Years In Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Corruption Scandal Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
SF Politics Florence Kong, Former SF Contractor Linked to Mohammed Nuru Bribery Ring, Gets One of the Largest Ethics Fines In City History Florence Kong, one of the many, many people ensnared in a federal probe of San Francisco City Hall that dates back to 2019 and beyond, has just agreed to an eyebrow-raising $750,000 settlement with the city.
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 Antioch Police Chief Abruptly Announces Retirement Amid Racist Text Scandal Ahead of legal proceedings set to begin this Friday over the Antioch Police Department’s racist texting scandal, Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford unexpectedly announced his retirement on Wednesday.
SF News Former Recology Exec Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mohammed Nuru With More Than $55,000 Another ousted Recology executive has pleaded guilty to bribing former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru with cash, meals, and gifts to the tune of around $55,000, and concealing the bribes as donations to Lefty O’Doul’s Foundation for Kids.
SF News Judge Releases Names of 17 Antioch Police Officers Accused in Racist Text Scandal Uncovered by FBI Probe Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe addressed the scandal Saturday, calling it "embarrassing" and saying it poses "a huge financial and legal liability" as racist texts jeopardize several cases.
SF Politics More Nuru Fallout: Prominent Landlord Victor Makras Found Guilty of Bank Fraud As we learn more about the terms of Mohammed Nuru’s prison sentencing, another big shoe drops — SF real estate magnate Victor Makras has been found guilty in a bank fraud scheme involving former PUC chief Harlan Kelly.
SF Politics Flashback: The Risqué Gavin Newsom Photo That Stared Down His 2007 SF Mayoral Campaign It was 15 years ago this week when this image brought scandal onto then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign. SFist investigates whether the image is even real, and who might have been behind its release.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Says Little, Enters Guilty Plea in SF Fraud Case We knew it was coming, and now it is here. San Francisco's long-serving former public works chief, Mohammed Nuru, has officially entered his guilty plea in federal court, with sentencing to follow in May.
SF News Nuru Takes Plea Deal With the Feds and Will Plead Guilty to Fraud, Plus Yet Unreported $20,000 Bribe A certain “former government employee” and “unnamed developer” should be very worried right now, as Mohammed Nuru is taking a plea deal with the feds and appears ready to sing like a canary.
SF Politics Former City Hall Power Couple's House, Named In Fraud Indictment, Has Trail of Suspicious DBI Permits The former City Hall power couple who’ve both resigned in scandal allegedly have some fixer-upper issues with their house, like missing permits, numbers that don’t add up, and shoddy work that’s reportedly damaged neighbors’ homes.
SF News Wife of Deceased Recology Exec Sues the Company, Blaming Them for His Suicide One of the darkest episodes of the Recology public corruption scandal will be aired in federal court, as a grieving spouse claims the company tried to pin the bribery on her husband, causing his suicidal breakdown.
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 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 State Treasurer Fiona Ma Being Sued For Alleged Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination Former SF Supervisor and state Assemblymember Fiona Ma, who became California State Treasurer in January 2019, is facing a lawsuit from a former senior employee in the Treasurer's Office claiming sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
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.
