SF Politics Federal Prosecutors Charge Former SF Building Inspection Commissioner With Bank Fraud Remember the messy corruption scandal that was roiling SF City Hall before the pandemic arrived? Well, it hasn't gone away, and today federal prosecutors unsealed bank fraud charges against former SF Building Inspection Commission member Rodrigo Santos.
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 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 News SFPD Chief Bill Scott Gives Extraordinary Late-Friday Press Conference to Apologize For Raid on Journalist Was it Kamala saying she was concerned? Was it pressure from the mayor to take the fall? Was it finally realizing his department exchanged one political drama for another and dug itself into a deeper a hole?
SF News Report Released On Wells Fargo Fake Account Scandal; $75 Million To Be Taken Back From Two Former Execs The scandal that broke last fall involving Wells Fargo and its aggressive and sketchy sales tactics can mostly be blamed on two former executives according to a new 113-page report released by the
SF News Bay Area Whistleblower Told Wells Fargo CEO About Bogus Account Problem In 2007 A letter has emerged, addressed to former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in September 2007, detailing the widespread practice of creating fraudulent bank and credit card accounts in order to meet sales quotas
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: As She Predicted, Wilsey Is Staying In Charge Of Museums Board Dede Wilsey's "personal fiefdom" managing the deYoung Museum and Legion of Honor shall apparently continue with only a few small changes, at least according to reports from special sessions of the museums' board
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Launch Their Own Investigation To Explain Building's Sinking When the 58-story building you call home starts tilting and sinking, it makes sense that figuring out the aberrational movement's true cause is a top concern — official finger-pointing be damned. With that in
SF News Millennium Tower Developer Now Blames 'Reckless Behavior' Of Transit Center Developers On Sinking Tower The blame game continues in the saga of Millennium Tower, which we learned last month had sunk 16 inches into the ground since it was completed seven years ago, and is also tilting
SF News Oakland Mayor Terminates Four Officers, Disciplines Eight Others In OPD Sex Scandal Along with City Administrator Sabrina Landreth (who is acting as temporary administrative head of the Oakland Police Department), Mayor Libby Schaaf gave a press conference late Wednesday announcing the disciplining of a dozen
SF News Scandal! Jane Kim Maybe Came Between Clinton Advisor Ann O'Leary And Her Husband, Kim's Former Law Professor A little bit of potential scandal news has entered the otherwise boring race for the state senate seat being fought by Supervisors Jane Kim and Scott Wiener: Kim has been implicated, according to
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Wilsey Stepping Down As Board President Amid Museums Scandal Major news in the museum world as local socialite and longtime board president of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco which include the deYoung and the Legion of Honor Dede Wilsey is
SF News Dozens Of SFPD Officers Were Connected To East Bay Sex Worker Celeste Guap On Facebook Though the SFPD has tried to suggest that only a couple of officers had any contact, sexual or otherwise, with the 18-year-old woman at the center of a broad-ranging sex scandal involving both
SF News Oakland Police Sex Scandal Blows Up Further With Details From Formerly Underage Prostitute News arrived late Thursday that Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent was being forced to resign amidst a sex scandal, even though Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf billed the resigned as being for "personal reasons.
SF News Civil Grand Jury: Scandal-Plagued Crime Lab Should Be Run Independently Of SFPD According to the findings of a six-month study by a 19-member San Francisco Civil Grand Jury, our local crime lab needs to be removed from SFPD control and run independently, just as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Vegan Community Up In Arms Upon Learning That Gracias Madre Owners Eat Meat Now Unfolding over the last couple weeks has been some MAJOR DRAMA on social media over the revelation not altogether new that Cafe Gratitude founders and owners of SF's Gracias Madre are now, after
Arts & Entertainment Oh Dear, Dede: Two More Museum Board Members, Including Former City Attorney, Resign Over Wilsey Dustup The drama continues at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco i.e. the joint board that oversees the deYoung and Legion of Honor as ongoing infighting persists over a "disability severance" payment
SF News More Shkreli Fallout: KaloBios Files For Bankruptcy You saw this coming if you were paying attention: After the NASDAQ delisted the stock of SF-based KaloBios and halted trading of it last week in the wake of CEO Martin Shkreli's arrest,
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: Mrs. Wilsey Defiant, Says She Didn't Need Board Approval For Gift In a new memo to the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, chair and CEO Dede Wilsey says she did absolutely nothing wrong and there is absolutely nothing to worry
SF News Oh Dear, Dede: State Opens Inquiry Into Wilsey's Apparent Financial Misconduct Well, since it looks like this scandal at the deYoung involving Dede Wilsey won't be going away, I guess it's time she gets her own tag along the lines of Oh No, Ed
Arts & Entertainment Dede Wilsey's de Young Museum Scandal Continues After Whistle-Blower Gets Fired SF grand dame and gossip column centerpiece Dede Wilsey has been making news recently for things that don't involve museum balls, fired curators, or her stepson. Last month we heard the first rumbling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter Of Tadich Grill Family Talks About Being Disowned For Marrying A Black Man, Yelpers Respond En Masse A story with local implications broke on Sunday via the Washington Post, and it's already spelling some trouble for a storied local restaurant, via Yelp. Terri Upshaw, born Terri Buich into the family
SF News New York Times Mag Discovers Shrimp Boy, Adores His Anti-Government Attorney Tony Serra The New York Times Magazine this week delves deep into a profile of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow which is also, in turn, a profile of his flamboyant, anti-government defense attorney J. Tony Serra
SF News <i>Forbes</i> Comes After Academy Of Art, Their Low Graduation Rate, And Their Shady Land Use Dealings Whoa. Forbes has not one but two pieces out today coming after the for-profit Academy of Art University and the multimillionaire Stephens family who have been running it for several generations. It's only
SF News Mirkarimi Had His License Suspended For Failing To Report Crash Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
