Federal prosecutors called it "a tale of greed as old as time" — a powerful San Francisco official at the heart of a web of kickbacks, bribery and fraud that stretched across more than a decade.
Mohammed Nuru, a former public works director, was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison for his role in a public corruption scheme that has ensnared at least a dozen San Francisco officials and business figures, eroded trust in City Hall and led to an ongoing FBI investigation.
Nuru, 59, "shook down multiple contractors eager for lucrative city business for well over a million dollars in cash, goods and services over a 12-year period," federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court on Aug. 18.
