Since Covid-19 erupted last spring, Washington came to the rescue with more than $5 trillion of fiscal stimulus. That unprecedented rescue effort helped prevent the economy from plunging into a depression.
In March, City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced a $100 million settlement with Recology over customer overbilling. The company says was due to an error in how it accounted for its revenues.
Two former top officials of that firm, however, are now charged criminally in an ongoing federal public corruption case. The allegations are that both former Recology officials were involved in bribing now ousted San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
But records show it was one of those two officials, John Porter, who admitted to the overcharging at a meeting with city officials in December 2018.
Documents show that meeting came after Dawson herself raised questions just weeks earlier about how the company was factoring its revenues versus its expenses – a ratio that is key in determining rate hikes.
Biden s massive infrastructure plan is the administration s next big legislative goal
From CNN s Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan, Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco
Workers with the San Francisco Department of Public Works repave a section of 24th Avenue on April 08, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Last month, President Biden laid out a massive plan to improve the nation s infrastructure and shift to greener energy.
The roughly $2 trillion proposal, which Congress will spend months on, would provide funding for roads, bridges, trains, broadband, airports, waterways and ports. He would put billions toward manufacturing, job retraining, housing, schools, veterans hospitals and federal buildings.
Second Trash Company Executive Charged With Bribing San Francisco Public Regulator Details Written by Imperial Valley News
San Francisco, California - John Francis Porter, the former Vice President and Group Manager of Recology’s San Francisco Group, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint unsealed with bribing former Director of San Francisco Department of Public Works (DPW) Mohammed Nuru and with money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie Hinds, Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Daniels, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
The complaint unsealed today alleges that Porter, 37, of San Francisco, bribed Nuru and participated in laundering the proceeds of the bribe as part of an alleged years-long scheme to defraud the public of its right to honest services. Porter was Group Controller and later Vice President and General