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 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.
SF Politics Pair of Businessmen Who Sought Contract For Asphalt Recycling Plant Charged In SF City Hall Corruption Probe The number of individuals facing federal charges in the ongoing San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal rose to eight this week, as two local businessmen were charged with bribing former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
SF Politics Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."
SF Politics FBI Probing Whether City Hall Power Couple Directed Contracts to the Person Who Sold Them Their House The widening Mohammed Nuru DPW investigation is now looking into why the City Administrator and SFPUC General Manager directed $8 million in contracts to the woman who sold them their house.
SF Politics Ongoing FBI Corruption Probe Hits Three More SF City Departments With Subpoenas The Planning Department, Department of Public Health, and the City Administrator's Office have all been hit with subpoenas stemming from the sprawling federal investigation into corruption in San Francisco government.
SF Politics Leland Yee Released From Federal Clink After Serving Five Years Notorious SF scandal figure Leland Yee has just been released from federal custody after serving five years for racketeering charges.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
