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Former San Francisco Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru. (SFPW photo) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Chinese immigrant businesswoman was sentenced to one year in prison for bribing a city official Thursday, marking the first criminal penalty handed down in a sprawling city hall corruption probe. Florence Kong, 63, of Hayward, pleaded guilty in October to giving $95,000 and a gold Rolex watch to former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru in exchange for help obtaining lucrative business from the city. Kong owns several real estate and construction businesses, including S...

City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, the owner of a construction firm as well as a debris recycling company that did business with San Francisco's Department of Public Works under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that first became public in early 2020. Kong, 63, was one of two city contractors to take plea deals last October, and on Thursday she was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Orrick in an emotional hearing in which she repo...

A federal judge meted out the first sentence in San Francisco’s public corruption scandal on Thursday, giving a millionaire entrepreneur a year-and-a-day term...