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A federal judge overseeing Mohammed Nuru's corruption case ordered the former San Francisco Public Works director to undergo a mental health evaluation following his arrest in an incident at a food bank last week, The East Bay Times reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mohammed Nuru, the former director of San Francisco Public Works at the center of a federal corruption case, was arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery after a report that he brandished a knife at a person Wednesday morning, according to San Francisco police. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A judge dismissed a bribery charge Tuesday against Apple's global head of security, saying there was no evidence he had acted with a corrupt intent when he offered to give iPad computers to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which was about to issue valuable gun permits for Apple's security staff. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two leaders of an Oakland construction management firm pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges in the far-reaching San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal centered on former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Longtime permit consultant and contractor Walter Wong has agreed to pay back more than $1 million to San Francisco - money he secured through noncompetitive grants and contracts with the city's Public Works and Public Utilities Commission, the City Attorney's Office announced Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco Department of Public Works financial executive has retired while investigations continue into a $100 million overcharging scandal that affected local residents' garbage bills. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former Recology vice president has been charged with money laundering and bribery as part of an alleged attempt to increase San Francisco's dumping fees to the waste management company, becoming the business' second executive to be netted in the still-expanding City Hall corruption scandal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Franciscans will recoup nearly $100 million in overpaid trash-collection fees after a probe by the City Attorney's Office detailed how the waste management company Recology improperly hiked its prices over the last four years, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Five local contractors allegedly implicated in the San Francisco City Hall bribery scandal are now prohibited from doing business with the city, the product of a new anti-corruption rule that allows the suspensions even while the executives' cases are still winding through criminal court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday nominated Assessor Carmen Chu to serve as city administrator, two days after Naomi Kelly said she plans to step down from the role next month under a cloud of scandal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Harlan Kelly must surrender his passport, rid himself of any firearms and not use alcohol in excess while he is out of jail and awaiting trial on a federal charge of wire fraud. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Although it lacks the fireworks of her boss Harlan Kelly's departure, a second San Francisco Public Utilities Commission official who has come under FBI scrutiny, Juliet Ellis, assistant general manager for external affairs, has announced her exit from the agency as well. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If former San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee were alive today, he would be deep in the U.S. attorney's investigation into corruption at City Hall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

City Administrator Naomi Kelly took a voluntary six-week leave of absence Wednesday, two days after federal prosecutors revealed a bribery case against her husband, former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Harlan Kelly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The fraud case against San Francisco's now-former Public Utilities Commission chief Harlan Kelly may have serious implications for another high-ranking city official: his wife. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The head of global security for Apple was indicted for what prosecutors said was his role in an alleged bribery scheme to obtain gun permits in exchange for political donations, the Santa Clara district attorney's office announced Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Santa Clara County undersheriff was indicted Friday as a co-conspirator in an alleged bribery scheme to sell gun permits in exchange for political donations, the Sheriff's Office said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal prosecutors charged a former San Francisco executive at waste management company Recology with bribery and concealing money laundering Wednesday, saying he funneled more than $1 million to Mohammed Nuru over the span of several years in an attempt to curry favor with the ex-Public Works director. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Disgraced former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru allegedly solicited donations from private sources and directed them toward a nonprofit that financially supported his department, according to a new report by the city controller. The concern is that the arrangement allowed Nuru to quietly work behind the scenes to benefit his department. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A grand jury indicted a Santa Clara County sheriff's captain, two attorneys and a gun parts manufacturer on felony bribery and conspiracy charges in an alleged scheme to exchange concealed gun permits for $90,000 toward Sheriff Laurie Smith's 2018 re-election campaign, investigators announced Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is seeking to ban construction firm AzulWorks from doing any business with the city for the next five years, given the firm's alleged links to the widening City Hall corruption scandal and ex-Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Before a pandemic and police protests, San Francisco was staring at a more localized problem: a City Hall scandal that dangled cash for an inside track on government business. The trail led right up to the mayor's office, and now another legal step is reminding the public of the serious charges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The man stepping in to run San Francisco's Public Works department while its director is prosecuted for alleged corruption started meeting the employees who steam the sidewalks, remove graffiti and clean the bus stops Thursday morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eleven parents accused in the national college admissions scandal now face additional charges of bribery, prosecutors announced Tuesday, in a move leveled only against defendants who have to date pleaded not guilty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The former head of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and his wife pleaded guilty Monday to their role in the sweeping college admissions scandal, admitting to shelling out $450,000 for cheating on their daughters' entrance exams and a phony recruitment to the Georgetown University tennis team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Menlo Park father is the first parent to avoid prison time in the so-called "Varsity Blues" case, a far-reaching college admissions scandal that ensnared the deep-pocketed elite and Hollywood actors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal judge said Thursday that former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique, held in solitary confinement in a Bay Area jail, is entitled to be released on bail while challenging extradition to Peru on bribery charges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland building consultant Taj Reid was sentenced to a year in federal prison Tuesday for accepting payoffs from an undercover FBI informant who posed as a developer seeking favorable treatment on local construction contracts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Concerning "Couple enter plea in admissions case" (May 2): As the mother of two honest and hardworking high school students, I'm angered by the prospect that a wealthy Hillsborough couple who paid bribes to get their daughters into UCLA and USC will face little or no jail time. Not only did these individuals (and others who pleaded guilty to similar transgressions) set a terrible example for their children, but they also denied admissions to students who actually deserved to attend these universities. If prison terms are not given to these affluent parents, then they should at least be forced to pay heavy fines. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

'Pay to play' bribery case ends with two [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The City Hall bribery case that unearthed an insider's grim summary of political deal-making in San Francisco - "you pay to play here" - has ended in plea agreements for the two remaining defendants, with no jail time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Menlo Park packaged-food entrepreneur accused of paying $15,000 to have a proctor cheat on his daughter's college entrance exam indicated Wednesday he will become the first parent ensnared in the school admissions scandal to plead guilty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as its chief executive touts a turnaround, San Francisco human resources software company Zenefits has suffered from a series of board departures, calling into question the company's support from key investors and advisers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The college admissions scandal that ensnared Stanford and other California universities revealed the lengths that some parents will go, including cheating and breaking the law, to obtain high scores for their kids on the SAT or ACT. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wealthy parents paid bribes to get their children into elite universities using false information about their athletic and academic abilities, federal officials said Tuesday as they unveiled the largest-ever criminal case alleging a college admissions cheating scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal prosecutors charged 50 people Tuesday in a sweeping college admissions cheating and bribery scheme. The defendants include Hollywood actresses, Bay Area parents, CEOs, a Stanford coach, a Napa Valley winemaker, a Miami real estate developer and others. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Investigators with Oakland's Public Ethics Commission said they found evidence that a former building inspector committed 47 violations of ethics laws including accepting bribes and misusing city resources for personal gain, according to an investigative report released Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A veteran investigator known for organized crime crackdowns in Oakland's Chinatown has pleaded guilty to a six-year bribery scheme with an informant, admitting accepting lavish vacations, a Mercedes-Benz and "hostesses" in exchange for shielding his source from prosecution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Sacramento federal court to accepting bribes from a contractor while serving in Afghanistan, prosecutors said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Now that the Republican tax bill is as good as law, is the matter settled, at least until November or, more likely, 2020? Not necessarily, because the courts may yet have a say on this question: Did the Republican party donors' strong-arm tactics cross the line of legitimate campaign contributions into illegal bribery? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former landscape manager for Vallejo was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $10,000 for orchestrating a scheme to solicit thousands of dollars in bribes from city contractors seeking federal community block grant funds, prosecutors said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Managers and financial advisers circling blue-chip prospects like coyotes." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former maintenance manager for Vallejo pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of soliciting bribes from city contractors in a scheme to steal thousands of dollars in community block grant funds, prosecutors said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]