Companies who bribed former San Francisco Public Works director Mohammed Nuru are barred from doing business with the city, City Attorney David Chiu announced.
SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City
As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts or dealings with former Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru.
It turns out not be so simple to bar a contractor from doing future business with the city, and the debarment process involves legal complications and may require a criminal conviction. So, last August, Herrera introduced legislation that would allow for a suspension process that could be used until such time as a debarment could occur while a contractor s civil or criminal case was still being tried.
City Hall corruption scandal: 5 Nuru-linked execs barred from doing business in S.F.
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S.F. City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced the suspension of five executives from contracting with the city.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2019
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.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who introduced the new legislation last year, on Monday announced the suspensions of the following executives and their companies: