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Herrera mum on Rippey-Tourk back payments


Ruby Rippey-Tourk
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By Brent Begin, Bay City News

February 15, 2007, 3:30 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced today his opposition to the public release of detailed information related to sick pay given to Mayor Gavin Newsom's former appointments secretary, Ruby Rippey-Tourk.

In a statement, Herrera promised to investigate whether payments to Rippey-Tourk were acceptable, including a "retroactive payment for leave made at the end of her term of service."

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Overheard in Fog City


Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal publisher.
Photo by Adam Aufdencamp

By Luke Thomas

 

February 16, 2007

Room 200 abuse of the public trust at the expense of San Francisco tax payers?

Ruby Rippey Tourk, the now infamous adulterer, came and went at the pleasure of the mayor in more ways than one, according to a confidential source.

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BALCO defense lawyer guilty of leaking testimony


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By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service


February 16, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A former defense lawyer in the BALCO, or Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, sports steroids case pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco Thursday to charges of leaking of grand jury testimony by Barry Bonds and other athletes to two San Francisco Chronicle reporters.

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U.S. Attorney Ryan leaving,
interim replacement named


U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Jason Bennert, Bay City News Service


February 16, 2007

United States Attorney Kevin Ryan announced yesterday that today will be his last day on the job, and the Justice Department simultaneously named a former South Carolina federal prosecutor as his interim replacement.

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COURT JESTERINGS

With h brown


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Reforming the SFPD
City needs Public Safety Officers

 

By h. brown

 

February 15, 2007

There absolutely cannot be police reform in San Francisco as long as Gavin Newsom is mayor. Further, reform cannot come with Louise Renne as the head of the Police Commission. The Office of Citizens Complaints cannot do it's work with light-duty police officers working in their offices. Both the Commission and the OCC (as well as the Ethics Commission) need dramatic staff increases. The Police Chief should be fired immediately.

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And in other news...

- Sleep aid found in body of Standford student Zhou

- Assessor-Recorder Ting wants San Francisco to be solar leader

- Bay Area home prices slip for 24th month in a row

- Study: Car free Golden Gate park attendance doubles


FCJ Quote of the Day


"It's double-talk. Basically she's got her finger to the wind
and it's the wind coming from the forces of war and continued occupation of Iraq."
- Ralph Nader on Pelosi, 2/15/7



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