{"id":422799,"date":"2026-08-03T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:01:36","slug":"look-whos-back-mohammed-nuru-has-returned-to-san-francisco-and-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422799\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who\u2019s back: Mohammed Nuru has returned to San Francisco \u2026 and City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribersPublished Aug. 2, 2026at6:00pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Mr. Clean is back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Yes, Mohammed Nuru, the former San Francisco Public Works director whose bribery schemes graced front pages, websites, and television screens in 2020, has returned to our foggy shores <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2021\/11\/web-of-corruption-explore-the-cronyism-lies-and-federal-crimes-at-the-heart-of-san-franciscos-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">after serving part of his sentence (opens in new tab)<\/a> at U.S. Penitentiary Lompoc in Santa Barbara County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Power Play\u2019s tipsters have spotted him about town, including under City Hall\u2019s gilded rotunda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Nuru is a tough man to reach \u2014 calls to his cellphone number went straight to a prerecorded survey gauging voter interest in potential presidential candidates. J.D. Vance, anyone?\u00a0When Power Play reached him at his house in the Bayview, he declined an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For subscribersPublished Aug. 2, 2026at6:00pm Mr. Clean is back. Yes, Mohammed Nuru, the former San Francisco Public Works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[24115,31426,20499,4637,101,103,102,104,106,105,15254],"class_list":["post-422799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-isabella-beya-alcaraz","tag-mohammed-nuru","tag-power-play","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfusd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}