SF got undeserved border crime $$
San Francisco repeatedly staved off federal auditors before finally admitting that the city had no proof it was entitled to $5.4 million in grant money it got for helping federal authorities fight border crime, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released Tuesday.
The department said last week that it wanted San Francisco to repay the entire sum, which the city received from 2004 to 2006. It said there was no evidence that any of the 2,241 prosecutions that San Francisco cited in its applications for the grant money had been referred to District Attorney Kamala Harris’ office by federal authorities.
In the report released Tuesday, the Justice Department’s inspector general in charge of the audit said the city had requested more time to produce documentation when federal officials approached them last July about justifying the prosecution money.