Updated on March 6, 2021 at 8:17 am
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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.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Thursday that ousted DPW director Mohammed Nuru had learned about the overcharging by Recology, but he did not provide details. “It was something that was known – DPW did nothing about it,” he said. “Recology knew about it at the time and did nothing about it.”
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