The bribes included $55,000 in payments for holiday parties a San Francisco public works manager hosted for friends, political supporters and select public works employees, from October 2017 through January 2020.
The lawsuit alleges that Google leverages control over online advertising, driving out competition and receiving profits that far exceed what could be made in a competitive market.
California cities of every size lack shelter beds for the state’s growing homeless population. A new bill would force local governments to do more, and punish cities that don’t plan housing for unhoused residents.
As part of its deal, all 84 First Republic branches in eight states – including seven in Santa Clara County, 15 in San Francisco, six in San Mateo County, eight in the East Bay and 17 in Southern California – will reopen this morning as JPMorgan branches.
A Sunday night deadline loomed as JPMorgan and PNC were said to be interested in acquiring the troubled lender after it is seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The Federal Reserve released hundreds of pages documenting how bank supervision and regulation failed to prevent the lender’s painful collapse. The F.D.I.C. released a separate report on Signature Bank’s failure.
Much of the Assembly Public Safety Committee's debate centered on whether it's better to treat the fentanyl crisis as a public health issue, or to see it as a public safety emergency where harsher punishments could deter drug dealers.
A California housing law grants generous benefits to builders who agree to only hire union workers. Trouble is, few if any builders found a way to do it.
San Jose Fire Chief Robert Sapien Jr. told City Council members Tuesday that unspecified “appropriate disciplinary action” had been taken and that he considered his investigation of the Oct. 5 incident at The Pink Poodle closed.