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Sheriff Mirkarimi, Lopez Shine During One Billion Rising Campaign Event
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, his wife, Eliana Lopez, and their four-year-old son, Theo, shone Thursday during a Valentine’s Day celebration of “One Billion Rising,” a global awareness campaign demanding an end to violence against women and girls.
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Mayor and City Attorney Subterfuge Exposed
Efforts by Mayor Ed Lee and City Attorney Dennis Herrera to avoid a costly and potentially embarrassing Ethics Commission inquisition into whether suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is guilty of official misconduct have been tainted by falsehoods and false accusations, a Fog City Journal investigation has revealed.
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Judge Denies Motion to Disqualify City Attorney in Mirkarimi Suspension Case
Mirkarimi’s defense counsel, Shepard Kopp and David Waggoner, argued in a brief filed April 11 that the City charter requires the City Attorney to defend the City and County of San Francisco; that no Charter provision exists for the City Attorney to defend a specific office within the city. If that were the case, then the City Attorney would also be obligated to defend the Office of Sheriff as well.
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City Attorney Authorizes Outside Counsel in Mirkarimi Suspension Case
Due to a conflict of interest raised by Mirkarimi’s defense team, filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, attorney Scott Emblidge of Moscone, Emblidge and Sater LLP, has been assigned to represent both the Ethics Commission and Board of Supervisors.
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Mirkarimi Defense Files Motion to Disqualify City Attorney
It is the latest motion to be filed by Mirkarimi in his quest for justice. A previous motion, filed March 27, seeks to reinstate the former District 5 supervisor as the lawfully elected Sheriff of San Francisco. That hearing has been scheduled for April 20.
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Lackluster Finish to Case that Made Serious Political Charges
But that paltry sum and the jury’s verdict of shared responsibility in failing to root out corruption in city government belied the more politically significant accusations made through depositions in the case that Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown overrode city staff to give contracts to a “fraudulent” yet politically connected company, which proved to be a tangential issue that was left largely unexplored at trial.
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Mayor Lee Testifies in Corruption Lawsuit
That Could Cost the City $10 MillionCity and County of San Francisco vs. Cobra Solutions and Telecon was being deliberated by jurors in Superior Court at press time. It centers on a fraud and kickback scheme engineered by convicted felon Marcus Armstrong, a former Department of Building Inspection information technology manager who bilked the city out of at least $482,000 between 1999 and 2001.
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Herrera Files Lawsuits Against Tenderloin Markets
for Alleged Facilitation of Drugs TraffickingThe lawsuits were filed following a two-year undercover police investigation which documents “numerous instances in which the markets operated as virtual safe havens for the sale of cocaine, crack, heroin, prescription painkillers and other drugs,” in violation of the Drug Abatement Act, according to Herrera.
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Herrera Sues ExxonMobil
for Refusal to Clean Up Decades of Pollution
at Fisherman’s WharfFrom the Office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera June 19, 2008 Oil Conglomerate’s Defiance Causes Continuing Release of Hazardous Materials Into Soil, Groundwater and Bay, According to City’s Complaint City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed…
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Photojournal: Harvey Milk Club Dinner Extravaganza
Harry Britt speaks at the Harvey Milk Club dinner on June 17, 2008. Photos by Luke Thomas By Elaine Santore and Luke Thomas June 18, 2008 Fog City Journal attended the Harvey Milk Democratic Club…
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Well-known Same-Sex Couple
First to Wed in San Francisco, AgainOfficiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco yesterday following the state Supreme Court’s decision last month to legalize same-sex marriage. Photos by…
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Bay Area News Briefs
Bay City News June 3, 2008 Pelosi Says Obama Won’t be ‘Backing In’ to Nomination House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday Sen. Barack Obama would not be “backing in” to the Democratic presidential nomination if…
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Same-Sex Couples and City Ask High Court
not to Delay Gay MarriagesBy Julia Cheever May 29, 2008 Same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco urged the state Supreme Court Wednesday to allow its same-sex marriage ruling to go into effect June 17 and not to…
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S.F. Health Plan, Herrera Sue McKesson
for Pharmaceutical Price-Fixing SchemeSan Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Photo by Luke Thomas City Program is First Government Plaintiff in Federal Suit Alleging Multimillion Dollar Conspiracy to Hike Prices on Consumers, Providers From the Office of City Attorney…
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