By Joe Eskenazi : missinlocal – excerpt
Mission Local has obtained a purported Sept. 11 letter from former San Francisco HR manager Rebecca Sherman, in which she expresses sorrow and outlines a long-running forgery plot culminating in a Black MTA worker being given a bogus $514,000 discrimination settlement Sherman allegedly crafted out of whole cloth.
I am writing this to you because I made a terrible decision that I followed with a series of additional terrible decisions, and I have created a giant mess,” reads the opening line of the email from Sherman to Katie Porter, the deputy city attorney advising the Department of Human Resources.
“I shouldn’t have gotten into this to begin with, and should have, at so many points along the way tried to make this right. I resigned this morning and will fully cooperate with whatever the process is from here on out.” …(more)