Mohammed Nuru

A San Francisco restaurant owner who has agreed to cooperate in an ongoing criminal case against the city’s former public works director is due to plead guilty to two counts in federal court Thursday afternoon.

Emails obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative unit reveal that two figures in San Francisco’s public works corruption scandal traveled together to Africa.

NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has uncovered more information about San Francisco’s Public Works Director as the corruption scandal around him widens. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco bought $5 million’s worth of garbage bins from a vendor with ties to ousted Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, according to documents obtained by NBC Bay Area.

San Francisco bought $5 million’s worth of garbage bins from a vendor with ties to ousted Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, according to documents obtained by NBC Bay Area. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Thursday issued 14 more subpoenas tied to the public corruption probe involving former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and restaurateur Nick Bovis. Thursday’s announcement is the second round of subpoenas issued by Herrera. On Feb. 12, the city attorney issued 10 subpoenas to several companies and organizations, including PG&E, the San Francisco Parks…

A San Francisco contractor is now alleging that it lost millions of dollars in work with the city after it refused to engage in “pay to play” politics with a key official at the center of the federal corruption and bribery investigation. An attorney for Synergy Project Management Inc. says the company was “scapegoated”  — denounced by then San Francisco…

Another claim of wrongdoing in the ongoing corruption scandal in San Francisco. A contractor says he lost work with the city for refusing to play ball with city leaders to get the contracts. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday admits she previously dated Mohammed Nuru 20 years ago. Nuru, who earlier this week resigned from his post as San Francisco Public Works Director, is at the center of a public corruption investigation. “The last couple weeks have been difficult for our City,” Breed wrote in a tweet. “We must continue to hold…

Some high-profile city leaders are calling for Mayor London Breed to resign. Who she dated is now impacting her political life. Jean Elle reports.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday admits she previously dated Mohammed Nuru 20 years ago. Melissa Colorado reports.

Another city official is facing tough questions in the widening public corruption scandal in San Francisco. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday admitted she previously dated Mohammed Nuru 20 years ago. Nuru, who earlier this week resigned from his post as San Francisco Public Works Director, is at the center of a public corruption investigation.

Another public works official has become embroiled in San Francisco’s widening corruption scandal after an e-mail emerged that could show he was involved in soliciting a contractor’s charitable donation that investigators say was funneled into a Public Works department holiday event last year.

A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reassure the public that bribery and kickbacks would not be tolerated. The complaint unsealed against San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and longtime restaurateur Nick Bovis focuses on an aborted attempt…

San Francisco’s head of public works, Mohammed Nuru, faces up to 25 years in prison as part of a wide-ranging FBI corruption case. Nuru, who has worked inside City Hall for the past 20 years, has been the focus of several NBC Bay Area investigations that exposed questionable contracts, Nuru’s ballooning street-cleaning budget, and serious safety violations within public works....

The man who is stepping up to run San Francisco’s Public Works Department met with workers Thursday. This comes as the department’s embattled leader is on leave and charged with fraud in a public corruption probe. San Francisco DPW Acting Director Alaric Degrafinried is reaching out to meet and support department crews, who are out cleaning streets in challenging...

San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru has resigned amid a public corruption scandal investigation.

San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru has resigned amid a public corruption scandal investigation.