Public Corruption Scandal

A new audit questions San Francisco’s ties to a non-profit organization that’s embroiled in the middle of a public bribery scandal. Federal prosecutors say it was being used by Public Works as, essentially, a $1 million slush fund.

A new audit questions San Francisco’s ties to a non-profit organization that’s embroiled in the middle of a public bribery scandal. Federal prosecutors say it was being used by Public Works as, essentially, a $1 million slush fund. Jaxon Van Derbeken shows us why even auditors can’t tell exactly where all the money came from.

Three subsidiaries of San Francisco garbage contractor Recology agreed Thursday to pay $36 million in criminal fines for conspiring to bribe now-ousted public works director Mohammed Nuru over a five-year period.

A former top official with San Francisco’s garbage hauling contractor Recology has agreed to plead guilty in exchange for his testimony in the city’s ongoing public corruption scandal, according to court documents prosecutors filed in a related case.

A former San Francisco Public Works manager is facing five felony charges for allegedly hiding his role in a company that reaped more than a quarter of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to provide T-shirts and other swag to San Francisco Public Works employees.

A former San Francisco Public Works manager is facing five felony charges for allegedly hiding his role in a company that reaped more than a quarter of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to provide T-shirts and other swag to San Francisco Public Works employees. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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.

San Francisco has reached a $1.7 million civil settlement with a major figure in the ongoing public corruption scandal, long-time permit expediter and contractor Walter Wong.

Julia Dawson, the chief financial officer at the San Francisco Department of Public Works, retired Friday amid the still ongoing investigation into what city officials knew about $100 million in overcharges by the Recology garbage hauling firm.

A former top Recology official is the latest in a string of city officials and contractors to be arrested in the federal San Francisco public corruption investigation.

A former top Recology official is the latest in a string of city officials and contractors to be arrested in the federal San Francisco public corruption investigation. 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.

Documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit indicate that top Public Works financial officials were alerted back in 2018 that Recology had been overcharging garbage collection customers by millions of dollars.

San Francisco’s public corruption scandal continues. The city attorney revealed residents have been overcharged for garbage and recycling pickup, to the tune of $100 million, and say the former Public Works director helped cover it up. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

San Francisco-based businessman and entrepreneur Dwayne Jones has made quite a living over the last decade, consulting on a unique city program he himself helped create.

There are questions about a program at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission designed to give back to the community. Some say the well-intentioned program is vulnerable to abuse and worry program insiders are cashing in. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

The former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission appeared at a digital federal court arraignment Tuesday but did not enter a plea to charges of wire fraud for allegedly accepting bribes from a contractor who is now cooperating with prosecutors.

San Francisco’s top unelected official went on a six-week leave from her post Wednesday, two days after her husband was charged federally with fraud in the city’s widening public corruption scandal.