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SF Official Charged With Keeping Streets Clean, Calls Himself ‘Mr. Clean.’ He’s Been Arrested For Corruption.

Hank Berrien
SF Official Charged With Keeping Streets Clean, Calls Himself ‘Mr. Clean.’ He’s Been Arrested For Corruption.
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On Monday, the head of San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), who refers to himself as “Mr. Clean” on Twitter, and whose department is charged with cleaning up the drug needles, feces and urine on the city’s streets, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption.

Mohammed Nuru, the head of SFPW, was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts, NBC Bay Area reported, according to Fox News. The San Francisco Chronicle reported, “FBI agents on Monday arrested Nuru, 57, and Bovis, 56, at their Bay Area homes before unsealing a federal complaint Tuesday for one charge of wire fraud. Nuru is separately charged with lying to the FBI after initially being arrested on Jan. 21 and being told to keep quiet about the investigation.”

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