By Dominic Fracassa : sfchronicle – excerpt
Federal officials served the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with a sweeping subpoena last month, demanding numerous records and documents that appear to draw the agency into the widening City Hall corruption scandal touched off by the arrest of former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru in January.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office issued the subpoena on June 15, according to a copy obtained by The Chronicle on Friday.
The subpoena suggests that federal investigators are interested in examining contracts the commission awarded to several companies, some of which have previously been linked to alleged schemes traced back to Nuru in investigations by the FBI and the City Attorney’s Office…
The federal subpoena specifically demands all communications “related to any LED light installation contracts” between commission employees and Walter Wong, Washington Wong, the relative with the business registration, and their affiliated companies. The City Attorney’s Office previously filed a subpoena directly to Alternate Choice in February…
They also ordered the agency to produce any commission audits from 2010 to the present related to trips taken by Kelly and Ellis…
Kelly’s wife is City Administrator Naomi Kelly, Nuru’s former boss…(more)
This is getting to be a rather extensive list of City Hall power players. Who will turn up next in the net?