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Board ready to write next chapter of Mirkarimi saga in vote on Tuesday

The long legal battle over removing suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will finally reach some kind of conclusion Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors, as its 11 members decide whether the former supervisor committed official misconduct surrounding an incident in which he bruised his wife’s arm last winter. Read More

Mayor Ed Lee’s perjury flap to resurface in Mirkarimi’s board hearing

Increasingly detailed perjury claims against Mayor Ed Lee will be highlighted in a much-anticipated Board of Supervisors hearing to determine if suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi should be permanently removed from elected office. Read More

DA rejects Mayor Ed Lee perjury inquiry

Perjury allegations against Mayor Ed Lee will seemingly remain no more than allegations. Read More

Ed Lee perjury probe interest wanes

Even as new evidence emerged Monday to corroborate a former city official’s suggestion that Mayor Ed Lee may have committed perjury before The City’s Ethics Commission, no San Francisco agency appeared likely to investigate the charges. Read More

Commissioners to decide on perjury in Mirkarimi case

More tense testimony and pivotal decisions are in store this week for the growing cast of characters involved in the official misconduct proceedings against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Read More

Mayor Ed Lee indignant over perjury claims in Ross Mirkarimi case

Mayor Ed Lee expressed rare frustration Wednesday for what he called “reckless and outrageous” claims that he lied under oath during his testimony in the official misconduct proceedings against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Read More

Hearings create strange alliances Ethics Commission

From the looks of the headlines, anyone visiting San Francisco would think our mayor is on trial. Events at the Ethics Commission hearings over whether suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi should be permanently removed from office have been a source of controversy from the start, but after Mayor Ed Lee testified about why he suspended Mirkarimi in the first place, things really got heated. Read More

Former supervisor bolsters perjury allegations against SF Mayor Ed Lee

Questions about possible perjury stemming from sworn testimony by Mayor Ed Lee are intensifying, as former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin contradicts the story the mayor presented on Friday during official misconduct proceedings against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Read More
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