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Top San Francisco street clean-up official arrested
The Associated Press ^ | January 28, 2020 | By JANIE HAR

Posted on 01/28/2020 12:36:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A top San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up the city’s notoriously filthy streets who has promoted portable public toilets to ease public urination has been arrested, jail records show.

San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was in custody Monday, along with Nick Bovis, the owner of Lefty O’ Doul’s, a popular sports bar in Fisherman’s Wharf.

Records say only that the men were arrested for felony safekeeping. The FBI and David L. Anderson, the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, planned a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

Local news outlets reported that Nuru, 57, was arrested on suspicion of public corruption. The San Francisco Police Department directed questions to the U.S. attorney’s office, which declined to comment ahead of the news conference.

As the top official in charge of the $312 million city public works budget since 2012, Nuru is tasked with cleaning up San Francisco streets, which critics note remain cluttered with feces, trash and used needles amid a homelessness crisis.

Nuru was first appointed to the department as deputy director under then-director Ed Lee, who later became mayor.

Nuru, who goes by “MrCleanSF” on Twitter, also oversees the design and construction of city facilities and 1,600 employees. Its capital project portfolio is more than $5.6 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: drugs; humanwaste; mohammednuru; nuru; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko
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1 posted on 01/28/2020 12:36:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe wanted to make it like his home country because, you know, he was homesick?


2 posted on 01/28/2020 12:37:31 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He's in Deep Shiite.............😄
3 posted on 01/28/2020 12:38:44 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Heck of a job, Brownie.


4 posted on 01/28/2020 12:39:22 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Somebody had to pick up those unsightly piles of cash.


5 posted on 01/28/2020 12:39:48 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: SkyDancer

So, he dared to clean up the Poo?

Throw the book at him.


6 posted on 01/28/2020 12:41:23 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...Records say only that the men were arrested for felony safekeeping.

What is felony safekeeping?


7 posted on 01/28/2020 12:45:17 PM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was he a phantom pooper looking to get job security?


8 posted on 01/28/2020 12:46:10 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Felony safekeeping”

What is that?

Was he stealing the poop and keeping it for himself?


9 posted on 01/28/2020 12:46:53 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Gasshog

Was more to it than that.


10 posted on 01/28/2020 12:47:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
“Felony safekeeping”

Not sure, but Muhammad had a $312 million annual budget to play with.

11 posted on 01/28/2020 12:49:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

he did a crappy job...


12 posted on 01/28/2020 12:49:37 PM PST by heavy metal (truth trumps lies...)
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To: Red Badger
I doubt it....

Prolly get a promotion........

13 posted on 01/28/2020 12:54:17 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Red Badger

You mean Muslims lie and are corrupt? Who knew!


14 posted on 01/28/2020 1:38:23 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another Democrat? Who’d a thunk?


15 posted on 01/28/2020 1:43:22 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: HangnJudge

What is felony safekeeping?....It’s collusion to keep safe money to Democrats?


16 posted on 01/28/2020 1:45:35 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: SkyDancer

A bit of searching via Google gave enough clues to deduce that the headline is semantically confusing. Apparently the poopomeister had Federal charges filed against him for corruption of some sort and was arrested by SF Police for safekeeping (i.e., keeping him from fleeing) on felony charges until the Feds could transfer him to a Federal facility. Two dozen TV and print news sources ALL reported the exact same story verbatim. Hive brain.


17 posted on 01/28/2020 2:07:00 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

Hmm, interesting how this’ll all turn out; if reported.


18 posted on 01/28/2020 2:08:34 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

Thanks for the research and posting the clarification. I was wondering myself what they were talking about.


19 posted on 01/28/2020 2:23:13 PM PST by dfwright (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess his $200,000+/year salary isn’t enough.


20 posted on 01/28/2020 2:25:30 PM PST by shotgun
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