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Crash victim’s wife angered over Police response at horrific accident scene
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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) Angry and grief-stricken, the wife of crash victim Sheria Musoyaka has taken to social media to lash out at San Francisco police over their response at the scene of a deadly multiple-vehicle crash near Lake Merced.
Sheria Musoyaka was the pedestrian killed in an 8-car crash Thursday. He was a Kenyan immigrant and Dartmouth graduate, his wife and their young son had just moved to the Bay Area and lived in the neighborhood.
Musoyaka had gone for his morning jog along Lake Merced and when he didn’t come home, his wife Hannah Ege began to worry and went to try to find him. She came upon the horrific crash scene and heard a pedestrian had been killed.
The company website says the company has been in the cannabis and hemp business for decades, but according to many farmworkers who used to work there, Castillo Seed said business had declined badly during the pandemic and told them they wouldn’t be paid the last weeks of December into the New Year. But that stretched into eight weeks of work with no pay.
Some went to Coastside Hope, an agency that acts as a safety net for those in need.
“A lot of them continued to go to work I believe because they had hope that, maybe, the next day they would get paid, and if not that day the next day,” said Coastside Hope Executive Director Judith Guerrero. “I think also the fear of leaving work and if you left work they wouldn’t pay you.”
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Phil Matier: D.A. inspector listens to prisoner’s phone call, uncovers huge state unemployment scam [San Francisco Chronicle]
Jan. 10 It was the first break in what turned out to be the biggest jailhouse scam in California history. It involved millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment payments to prisoners and their co-conspirators on the outside. And it happened quite by accident at the San Mateo County Jail.
“It was just before July 4. I was listening to a recording of a call made by prisoner I had been monitoring. About an hour into the call they started talking about this scam,” said Inspector Jordan Boyd, a nine-year veteran of the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Jonathan  Karesh
Jury trials have been suspended for the next 30 days starting on Monday over public safety concerns due to COVID-19, the San Mateo County Superior Court said on Thursday.
Jonathan Karesh, presiding judge of the San Mateo County Superior Court, decided to delay court dates because of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and the subsequent safety concerns. Karesh wanted to reduce the risk of exposing jurors and employees to COVID-19. He weighed the balance of providing an essential public service and protecting people from risk through jury trials. Around 1,000 people show up for consideration for jury duty in a week, and he wanted to try and reduce that risk.