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Herrera mum on Rippey-Tourk back payments
Ruby Rippey-Tourk
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Luke Thomas
By Brent Begin, Bay City News
February 15, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis
Herrera announced today his opposition to the public release of
detailed information related to sick pay given to Mayor Gavin
Newsom's former appointments secretary, Ruby Rippey-Tourk.
In a statement, Herrera promised to investigate whether payments
to Rippey-Tourk were acceptable, including a "retroactive
payment for leave made at the end of her term of service."
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Overheard in Fog City
Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal publisher.
Photo by Adam Aufdencamp
By Luke
Thomas
February 16, 2007
Room 200 abuse of the public trust at the expense of San Francisco
tax payers?
Ruby Rippey Tourk, the now infamous
adulterer, came and went at the pleasure of the mayor in more
ways than one, according to a confidential source.
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BALCO defense lawyer guilty of leaking testimony
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By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service
February 16, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A former defense lawyer in the
BALCO, or Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, sports steroids case
pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco Thursday to charges
of leaking of grand jury testimony by Barry Bonds and other athletes
to two San Francisco Chronicle reporters.
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U.S. Attorney Ryan leaving,
interim replacement named
U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan
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Luke Thomas
By Jason Bennert, Bay City News Service
February 16, 2007
United States Attorney Kevin Ryan announced yesterday
that today will be his last day on the job, and the Justice
Department simultaneously named a former South Carolina federal
prosecutor as his interim replacement.
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COURT JESTERINGS
With h brown
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Luke Thomas
Reforming the SFPD
City needs Public Safety Officers
February 15, 2007
There absolutely cannot be police reform in San
Francisco as long as Gavin Newsom is mayor. Further, reform
cannot come with Louise Renne as the head of the Police Commission.
The Office of Citizens Complaints cannot do it's work with light-duty
police officers working in their offices. Both the Commission
and the OCC (as well as the Ethics Commission) need dramatic
staff increases. The Police Chief should be fired immediately.
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And in other news...
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aid found in body of Standford student Zhou
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- Study:
Car free Golden Gate park attendance doubles
FCJ Quote of the Day
"It's double-talk. Basically she's got her finger to the
wind
and it's the wind coming from the forces of war and continued
occupation of Iraq."
- Ralph Nader on Pelosi, 2/15/7
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