Mohammed Nuru

Saying she was worried about his mental state, a federal judge ordered former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru to undergo a mental evaluation following a bizarre incident last week at a local foodbank that led to his arrest but no criminal charges.

A federal judge ordered former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru to undergo a mental evaluation following a bizarre incident last week at a local foodbank that led to his arrest but no criminal charges. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Prosecutors have decided not to file criminal charges against Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco’s former public works director, after he was arrested Wednesday for alleged attempted robbery of a bag of potato chips.

Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was arrested Wednesday after pulling a knife at a food bank, police said.

Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was arrested Wednesday after pulling a knife at a food bank, sources and police said. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

A former member of San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s staff has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and will cooperate with federal prosecutors in San Francisco’s widening corruption scandal, court records filed Tuesday show.

A federal judge meted out the first sentence in San Francisco’s public corruption scandal on Thursday, giving a millionaire entrepreneur a year-and-a-day term behind bars after she admitted to plying a former top city official with a $37,000 Rolex in exchange for favorable bid treatment.

A former manager for San Francisco’s garbage collection agency Recology has been charged with bribery and money laundering for allegations of assisting embattled former Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru launder over $1 million, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A report by the San Francisco City Controller’s Office released Thursday concludes the city’s top executive, City Administrator Naomi Kelly, “was aware” that now-ousted Public Works head Mohammed Nuru was urging contractors to make donations for a Public Works holiday party last year, payments that the report concluded had violated ethics rules.

San Francisco’s public corruption scandal has now touched the city’s highest executive — the city administrator. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

The president and vice president of an Oakland construction management firm are the latest figures to be implicated in San Francisco’s widening public corruption scandal, according to newly filed federal documents.

The president and vice president of an Oakland construction management firm are the latest figures to be implicated in San Francisco’s widening public corruption scandal, according to newly filed federal documents.

A city report issued Monday identified major gaps in oversight it said fueled corruption at the Department of Public Works, including a 2011 decision by the then-mayor Ed Lee to give the now ousted DPW director complete authority to approve contracts.

A new report out Monday traces the roots of San Francisco’s public corruption scandal, to find out where things went wrong. Jaxon Van Derbecken reports.

A top member of Mayor London Breed’s staff, Sandra Zuniga, faces charges of money laundering and conspiracy. Federal authorities say she was a long-time girlfriend of the central figure in the case — ousted Public Works Director 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.