SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Faces Up to Six Months in Jail After Bar Fight Last Year South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass was convicted of misdemeanor harassment Thursday over a confrontation with a bar bouncer in October amid a turbulent year for the city’s leadership, and he faces up to six months in jail.
SF Politics Former Newsom Mayoral Aide Ruby Rippey Breaks Silence on Scandalous 2005 Affair Ruby Rippey, formerly Ruby Rippey-Tourk, has published a personal essay about her alcohol-fueled affair with Gavin Newsom during his first term as mayor of San Francisco — while Rippey’s husband Alex Tourk was one of Newsom’s top advisors.
SF Politics Democratic Operative Alexis Podesta Wore a Wire In FBI Probe In Sacramento A well known Democratic figure in Sacramento, Alexis Podesta, reportedly wore a wire as part of her cooperation with federal investigators as they homed in on former Newsom chief of staff and former Xavier Becerra aide Dana Williamson.
SF Politics City Backs Off Deal to Operate Fillmore Community Center After Major Pushback Some drama erupted this past week over a deal, seemingly backed by a broad swath of city leaders, to hand over operational control of a beloved Fillmore neighborhood community center to a nonprofit without seeking community consensus.
SF Politics Feds Reportedly Make 'Inquiries' Over London Breed's Appointment of Supervisor Stephen Sherrill The FBI has reportedly been making inquiries about an alleged quid pro quo situation involving London Breed, Michael Bloomberg, and SF Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and it sounds like Breed's former aide and confidante Conor Johnston may be coming back to haunt her.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress, But Says That Effort to Swiftly Expel Him Is 'Wrong' The implosion of the political career of Eric Swalwell, following 13 years in Congress, took only three days, and as of Monday afternoon he had announced his resignation from Congress.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sheryl Davis Delays Arraignment, Plans to Plead Not Guilty Embattled former City Hall figure Sheryl Davis has delayed her arraignment; a rabid bat was found in Fremont; and Sunday Streets has made it halfway to its fundraising goal.
SF News Sheryl Davis, Human Rights Commission Director and Dream Keeper Chief Under Breed, Arrested on Felony Charges The former Human Rights Commission executive director and leader of the Dream Keeper initiative, Sheryl Davis, who has been facing an array of city ethics charges over the alleged misuse of funds, is now officially facing criminal charges.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF News Former Dream Keeper Chief and Human Rights Commission Director Sheryl Davis Hit With Array of Ethics Charges The San Francisco Ethics Commission has now formally accused former Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis of a range of ethics violations that may also amount to illegal acts involving improper gifts and conflicts of interest.
SF Politics More Sheng Thao Fallout: San Leandro City Councilmember Charged With Bribery, Lying to FBI There’s more dirty laundry coming out in the whole Sheng Thao mess, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo faces federal charges for taking bribes and kickbacks, and lying to the FBI about a $2,000 envelope of cash.
SF News [Updated] San Mateo County Supervisors Cast Final Vote, Ousting Sheriff Christina Corpus Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who has spent the last year defiantly refusing calls to resign, faced a final vote by county supervisors Tuesday, who voted unanimously for her removal.
SF News Fired SFPD Nonprofit Leader, Under Investigation for Embezzling $100K, Sues for Her Final Paychecks A new Hall of Fame entry in the annals of chutzpah, as the former director of an SFPD-affiliated nonprofit who’s under indictment for embezzling $100 grand has sued the nonprofit for $26,000 in back pay she claims they still owe her.
SF Politics City Audit Further Details $4.6M In Misspent Dollars By Former SF Human Rights Commission Chief The San Francisco public already knew about the not-all-above-board spending practices of disgraced former Human Rights Commission chief and Dream Keeper program head Sheryl Davis, but a new city audit puts an eye-popping pricetag on it: $4.6 million.
SF News Former SF Parks Alliance CEO Faces the Music Over Misused Millions at Angry City Hall Committee Hearing This very uncomfortable-looking man is SF Parks Alliance CEO Drew Becher, who had to squirm Thursday as angry SF supervisors' committee grilled him over how $4 million was misspent, and he claimed he just didn’t know it was happening.
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.
