Demian Bulwa

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News Director at San Francisco Chronicle

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Director of News, San Francisco Chronicle. Email: demian.bulwa at https://t.co/6J1jPOiysU. Tips welcome. DMs open.

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‘Money buys everything’: Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

Jan 19, 2025 | capoliticalreview.com | Megan Cassidy |Rachel Swan |Sarah Ravani |Demian Bulwa

It was about 10 days after the November 2022 election, and two influential Oakland businessmen were elated. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Sheng Thao had pulled off an improbable win in the local mayor’s race, and the men — former City Council candidate and entrepreneur Mario Juarez and Andy Duong, whose family ran curbside recycling in Oakland — discussed getting rich as a result.
Here's how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

Jan 17, 2025 | mercedsunstar.com | Megan Cassidy |Rachel Swan |Sarah Ravani |Demian Bulwa
‘Money buys everything’: Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

Jan 17, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Megan Cassidy |Rachel Swan |Sarah Ravani |Demian Bulwa

It was about 10 days after the November 2022 election, and two influential Oakland businessmen were elated. Sheng Thao had pulled off an improbable win in the local mayor’s race, and the men — former City Council candidate and entrepreneur Mario Juarez and Andy Duong, whose family ran curbside recycling in Oakland — discussed getting rich as a result.
‘Money buys everything:’ Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

Jan 17, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Megan Cassidy |Rachel Swan |Sarah Ravani |Demian Bulwa

It was about 10 days after the November 2022 election, and two influential Oakland businessmen were elated. Sheng Thao had pulled off an improbable win in the local mayor’s race, and the men — former City Council candidate and entrepreneur Mario Juarez and Andy Duong, whose family ran curbside recycling in Oakland — discussed getting rich as a result.
A California canine officer was an ace at locating drugs. Authorities say it was all made up

Nov 1, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

For years, a canine officer assigned to Bay Area prisons seemed to have an extraordinary knack for sniffing out contraband being smuggled inside, vastly outperforming his colleagues by repeatedly locating drugs, weapons and cellphones. Federal prosecutors now say it was all a scam.
Mother of San Francisco 49ers’ Pearsall reveals bullet passed through his chest, ‘missed his vital organs’

Sep 1, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Michael Cabanatuan |Demian Bulwa |Aidin Vaziri

The mother of San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, who was shot in an attempted robbery Saturday afternoon in the city’s Union Square shopping district, said the gunman’s bullet went through the right side of her son’s chest and out his back without striking any vital organs. “I want to thank GOD for protecting my baby boy,” Erin Pearsall wrote on Facebook Saturday, asking for prayers in a post she later deleted. “He is extremely lucky, GOD shielded him.
California finally begins to detail why it is booting some police officers out of the profession

Aug 29, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Sophia Bollag |Demian Bulwa

One officer groped a sleeping woman while off duty. Another was accused of taking advantage of a domestic violence victim he met while on duty. California has finally begun to release details about why some police officers have been permanently stripped of their powers under a landmark law passed three years ago in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
RFK Jr. admits in bizarre video that he dumped a dead bear in New York’s Central Park

Aug 4, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

Apparently seeking to blunt the impact of a forthcoming New Yorker article, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a bizarre video Sunday admitting that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park and staged the scene to look like a bicyclist had run over the animal.
Three decades after infamous testimony in O.J. Simpson trial, Mark Fuhrman barred — officially — from law enforcement

Jun 7, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman has been officially barred from serving as a peace officer in California, nearly three decades after his infamous court testimony weakened the prosecution’s murder case against O.J. Simpson. California’s Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training began moving to “decertify” officers last year under a new reform law meant to rebuild the public’s trust with police.
She headed logistics for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Now she’s accused of stealing $600K

May 18, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

The former director of logistics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey has been accused of a massive embezzlement scheme. Federal prosecutors say Zelene Charles, 42, spent upward of three years stealing more than $600,000 from the school and the nearby Defense Language Institute, plus a cache of Apple MacBooks and iPads. Charles, who lives in East Garrison in Monterey County, was charged Friday with felony counts of theft of government property and wire fraud, records show.

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Articles

‘Money buys everything’: Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

Here's how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

‘Money buys everything’: Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

‘Money buys everything:’ Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down

A California canine officer was an ace at locating drugs. Authorities say it was all made up

Mother of San Francisco 49ers’ Pearsall reveals bullet passed through his chest, ‘missed his vital organs’

California finally begins to detail why it is booting some police officers out of the profession

RFK Jr. admits in bizarre video that he dumped a dead bear in New York’s Central Park

Three decades after infamous testimony in O.J. Simpson trial, Mark Fuhrman barred — officially — from law enforcement

She headed logistics for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Now she’s accused of stealing $600K

Journalists covering the same region

Susana Guerrero

Darren Peck

Emma Silvers

Zack Ruskin

Tyche Hendricks

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