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Former mayoral secretary Hwang
files police brutality civil rights lawsuit
Esther Hwang, bikini model and former secretary to Mayor Willie
Brown,
filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in San Francisco today claiming
she was brutalized
and unlawfully arrested by police.
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Luke Thomas
By Tamara Barak
May 23, 2007
A woman who once made headlines as a bikini model who also worked
as then-Mayor Willie Brown's secretary filed a lawsuit in San
Francisco today claiming she was brutalized and unlawfully arrested
by police.
Esther Hwang and her attorney John Burris announced the lawsuit
today at the North Beach-based modeling agency that employs Hwang.
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City launches investigation into Jew's residence
District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew at yesterday's Board of Supervisors
meeting, is the focus of a Federal and now, local, investigation.
Today, the San Francisco City Attorney's office launched an investigation
to determine the embattled supervisor's true residence.
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Luke Thomas
By Tamara Barak
May 23, 2007
While the city launches an investigation into whether Ed Jew
lives in the district he represents, the embattled San Francisco
supervisor has left
the country on what his lawyer says was a pre-planned trip.
Jew's attorney, Steven Gruel, confirmed today that his client
is in China. According to Gruel, Jew purchased the tickets on
May 1, nearly three weeks before the FBI served search warrants
on his properties.
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Overheard in Fog City
Luke Thomas
FCJ Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Photo by Adam Aufdencamp
By Luke
Thomas
May 23, 2007
Fog City Blind Item
A joke going around yesterday between supervisors
during the weekly Board of Supervisors meeting, went thus (paraphrased):
If Supervisor Jew steps down or is convicted...
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Prosecutor says bakery stabbing suspect
planned to kill
By Tamara Barak
May 23, 2007
Before stabbing a 14-year-old girl in a San Francisco
bakery Saturday, Scott Thomas dreamed about killing for four
months while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, according
to a prosecutor at Thomas' arraignment in San Francisco Superior
Court this morning.
In urging Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe to deny bail
in the case, Assistant District Attorney Ana Gonzalez argued
that the 26-year-old parolee from Van Nuys, Calif., is extremely
dangerous.
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And in other news...
- AC
Transit lures riders out of their cars, launches fleet of buses
with free WI-FI
- Gwen Chan to step down as SFUSD Superintendent
- Senator Migden under the influence of medication
for leukemia
- Berkeley City Council votes to dissolve dysfunctional
Housing Authority
- U.S. Coast Guard, marine biologists change
tactics with stubborn humpbacks
- Alameda County Sheriff's office announces
prosecutors
have decided not to charge their prime suspect in Jennifer Lin
murder case
- Female driver dies after being struck by debris
from jackknifed big-rig
- EU grants Napa Valley vintners status to prevent
misuse of the Napa name
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