The head of the San Francisco Public Works Dept., Director Mohammed Nuru, the person in charge of cleaning up the city’s feces-filled streets, was arrested Monday alongside Nick Bovis, the owner of a popular sports bar in Fisherman’s Wharf, Lefty O-Doul’s.**********
Nuru was the top official in charge of the $312 million city public works budget.
In the early 2000s, Nuru was accused by Public Works whistleblowers of misappropriating public funds and replacing city workers with employees from a nonprofit he previously led.
Sources told NBC Bay Area that Nuru was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts.
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