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.
SF News Disgraced Ex-Building Inspector Allegedly Approved Shady, Ridiculously Unsafe Permits All Over San Francisco A San Francisco building inspector resigned last week over fishy permits he granted at two properties and an inappropriate loan from a developer, but now the dam is bursting with a school of his fishy permits that span all across the city.
SF Politics Former Nuru Girlfriend and 'Fix-It Team' Head Sandra Zuniga Pleads Guilty In Federal Corruption Probe Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
SF Politics Recology Must Reimburse SF Customers $100 Million For Alleged Mohammed Nuru Bribes SF households will be reimbursed an average of $190 by Recology, amidst charges of bribes to the disgraced former Public Works director that persuaded him to approve rate hikes.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.
SF Politics City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, who did business with SF's Public Works Dept under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that became public early last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF Politics Willie Brown Doesn't Get the Drama With the City Hall Scandal, Feels Bad For Friends Facing Federal Charges Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who is often credited with wielding influence over city government and development long after his tenure as mayor ended in the early 2000s, has weighed in on the latest corruption scandal at City Hall in a new interview.
SF Politics Drug Test Ordered By Judge Following Search of City Official's Home and Suspected Cocaine Discovery A new and embarrassing twist came in the City Hall scandal chapter involving former SF Public Utilities chief Harlan Kelly as prosecutors say that cocaine was found in the FBI's search of his home.
SF Politics City Administrator Naomi Kelly Takes Leave of Absence Amid Scandal, Husband's Indictment Following Monday's bombshell announcement of charges against SF Public Utilities Commission Director Harlan Kelly, following an FBI raid of his home, we now get word that his wife, City Administrator Naomi Kelly, has voluntarily — or under pressure from the mayor — taken a leave of absence.
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.
