2nd Recology executive linked to Mohammed Nuru corruption scandal charged
By Daniel Montes
Longtime friends charged by feds with corruption
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors in San Francisco announced Thursday they ve charged the former vice president and group manager of Recology the company contracted by the city to handle waste collection with bribery and money laundering.
John Francis Porter, 37, is the second Recology executive to be charged in the ever-widening city corruption case, as federal prosecutors also charged former Recology group and government community relations manager Paul Frederick Giusti with bribery and money laundering back in November.
Prosecutors allege Porter worked with Giusti to bribe former San Francisco Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru, whose responsibilities included regulating waste collection rates and approving contracts.
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SF Board of Supervisors Approves Four-Year Extension of Ferris Wheel, Rejecting Challenge
The full San Francisco Board of Supervisors still conferencing in from their offices spent a precious hour at Tuesday s meeting discussing and debating the extension of the contract for the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park. Several of them expressed some exasperation about the fact that they were spending so much time and energy on this, while several of the progressive supervisors expressed passionate justifications for why the board should have been consulted on the matter in the first place. And in the end, they voted 6-5 to let the contract stand as-is, at four years, in what will be cast as a victory for fun.
Fate of Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel in hands of supes
By Daniel Montes
The new ferris wheel at Golden Gate Park. Photo: Keith Crook
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco s Board of Supervisors will decide on Tuesday whether to allow a Ferris wheel at Golden Gate Park s Music Concourse to stay for another year instead of the four-year extension proposed by the city s Historic Preservation Commission.
The Board of Supervisors will consider the resolution after the supervisors Rules Committee voted unanimously on Monday to bring it to the full board for a vote.
Earlier this month, the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission approved extending the stay of the 150-foot-tall SkyStar Observation Wheel through 2025, in order to reinvigorate the city s post-pandemic economy and help offset SkyStar s financial loss.
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