D.A. Harris vows to probe federal crime grant

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/8/8 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

[SmithL]

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris said Monday that she is trying "to get to the bottom" of how her office obtained millions of dollars from a grant program for prosecution of border crimes that federal auditors have concluded the city had no right to receive.

Federal officials said last week that San Francisco had received $5.4 million since 2004 in grant money intended to reimburse local jurisdictions for prosecuting crimes on behalf of federal authorities. In 2006, the $3.7 million that San Francisco received from the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative was the most of any county in four states that border Mexico, and it was far more than the total of grants awarded to other Bay Area counties, the audit by the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said.

The audit concluded that none of the money that went to San Francisco was justified because Harris' office prosecuted no cases that fit the program's criteria. The federal government is demanding that the city return all the money it received.

Harris, in her first public statement on the audit, said she has begun "a formal review to determine exactly how it was that certain cases were submitted and were thought to qualify for reimbursement."

The audit quoted San Francisco officials as saying the city's application for the grant money had been based on estimates of the number of prosecutions that Harris' office handled and not "actual cases."

[SmithL]

Illegal sanctuary is a San Francisco value.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

A gift from Pelosi?

[Truth29]

This is a joke - right? Harris is investigating her own office and, in effect, herself. Ryan is investigating the city which is his employer. The actuality of conflict of interest and the potential for a cover-up should scream to investigative reporters and Federal officials.

[Cicero]

I’m sure Pelosi would never get involved in something like this, sending border control money to a sanctuary city.

And I’m sure the feds never suspected a thing, either. After all, who would imagine that San Francisco wouldn’t get tough on illegals?

They’d all better hurry up and investigate themselves.

[SF Republican]

Harris is investigating her own office and, in effect, herself. - She has nothing to worry about, they NEVER convict.

[YOUGOTIT]

The anti-American Adolph Francisco robbed the American Tax payers as all left-wing pig faced Nazi Democrats do.