Busted

(A few hours after CitiReport posted this, the Chron’s Debra Saunders posted Evelyn’s article on Debra’s blog. Read her intro and the post here: http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2012/10/08/former-girlfriend-defends-mirkarimi/ (This is from Evelyn Nieves, a respected journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and other publications. She has just returned from on-site reporting from the [...]

City officials with a say over awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and monitoring over a billion dollars in spending from bond funds failed to comply with state laws requiring that they publicly disclosure their potential financial conflicts of interest months after the state deadline. Among the officials who have not filed by [...]

It is, we are told, spelled out in the City Charter. “Official misconduct means…conduct that falls below the standard of decency, good faith and right action impliedly required of all public officers…” What that means – and doesn’t mean – comes through in sharp relief if you substitute the name Gavin Newsom for Ross Mirkarimi. [...]

With Election Day just six days away, it was one of the most explosive charges that could be made and it came from one of the most prominent political figures in San Francisco. Was District Attorney George Gascon failing to file charges in the case of a pedestrian killed by a bicyclist in July because [...]