It may be dwarfed by the trouble he's in with the feds, but San Francisco over the question of where he lives. recent years, pumping a combined $166,300 of his own money into his races for the board in 2002 and 2006. Unfortunately for Jew, he blew through the ceiling for lending money to his own campaign in the first race and appears to have done the same last year, According to City Hall election records, Jew lent $80,000 to his campaign for the District 4 seat early last year -- well over half the $137,344 that his campaign eventually raised and spent, and well above the $15,000 limit on loans to one's own campaign.
On Oct. 13, 2006 -- just weeks before the election -- Jew amended his report to show he was lending the campaign the legally allowed $15,000 limit, with the remaining $65,000 properly listed as a contribution from himself. be repaid from contributors.
Money that candidates give to their own campaigns Ethics Commission chief John St. Croix declined to discuss the case because the investigation is not finished. Under city rules, Jew could face fines and penalties of as much as $205,000.
In part, that's because this wasn't the first time Jew has exceeded the loan limit, records show. Four years earlier, in his unsuccessful bid for supervisor, Jew tried to lend his campaign $20,000 on top of a $66,300 personal contribution. He later amended his report to reflect the legally allowed $15,000 loan, but was fined $400 for the original violation.
At least on paper, Jew has plenty of resources to help float his campaign efforts, be it his family's flower and tax businesses, stocks and mutual funds, investigation into whether he improperly took $40,000 from business people trying to open tapioca-drink stores in his district, the unresolved question of whether he actually lives in District 4. So it may not be surprising that when we called him Tuesday to ask about the campaign funding issue, he didn't call dissolved and its 14 full-time workers be transferred. The authority, which provides subsidized housing for some 1,800 families, of troubled housing agencies since 2002.
Section 8 rent voucher program, the agency: -- Paid rent to landlords for 15 people who were dead, one of them for two years. of other people on the waiting list. -- Granted vouchers for multi-bedroom housing to single people.
-- Didn't conduct mandated criminal background checks on tenants, and in one case failed to detect a registered sex offender. limit for receiving the federal rent vouchers, or even in some cases ignored that they made too much. supposed to be living there.
In one case, the housing authority even paid rent on two units for a tenant who appeared to be ineligible in the first place. When Tia Ingram, formerly of the Alameda Housing Authority, was brought in to help get Berkeley's agency back on track in August, a whole new crazy office and reappear. It happened so many times that Ingram finally had the locks changed on her doors.
When she tried to sort out the problems, some staffers actively obstructed her efforts, the report said. Some agency employees even refused to cooperate funding, the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. And when it came to dealing with tenants, many staffers were "also rude and at times outright hostile," the report said. As a result, City Manager Phil Kamlarz concluded, the department needs to be "completely re-engineered.
" authority be replaced with an appointed board. full-time workers to other municipal jobs, the only option open under the Of the existing staff, only Ingram would remain, and -- armed with $947,000 in new money -- would be tasked with rebuilding the agency over the next two years. Untold story: By now, you've probably heard about the 14-year-old girl who was stabbed Saturday afternoon at a Twin Peaks bakery, allegedly by a repeat offender who had been let out of San Quentin State Prison the day before.
What you haven't heard is how the girl could easily have died, had it not been for the well-timed appearance of a passer-by. Chang went into the bakery and found the girl bleeding from her neck. Luckily, Chang wasn't just any passer-by.
He's a former emergency doctor and now CEO of San Mateo Medical Center. spot and stop the bleeding until the ambulance arrived. In short, he saved her life, police Capt.
Paul Chignell said. There you have it, the worst and best of life -- all in one place. What are the odds?
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