FBI WIRETAPS - REVEAL A HORNET NEST OF CONTRACTORS IN SAN FRANCISCO - BID-RIGGING - IN OPEN DEFIANCE - THIS PRACTICE CONTINUES - TO THIS DAY.

Derf Butler has always used crooked methods to make fast money.

He did not hesitate to print money - got caught and was sent to jail.

Hardly had he come out - he got a contact from the SF Redevelopment Agency - he opened a Night Club - on SF Port Property and before you know - he went under.

Could not pay his rent - and was involved in all sorts of nefarious activities at the night Club on 3rd - closer to 20th Street.

Derf did not give up - he became a consultant to Lennar Urban and started recruiting businessmen - who he promised the world - and used them to get fake contracts - " in pay to play schemes ".

Derf the smooth talker in the cockpit as head of a company named Butler Enterprise Group. This company in under and more under deep - investigation

The indictment of Peter McKean of San Mateo - and Butler's good friend and partner in crime Clifton Burch - is just the tip of the iceberg.

Recently in court - tapes were played and mention made of London Breed and Malia Cohen - one worse than the other in " pay to play " - ploys, machinations, and shenanigans. This was before London Breed was elected Mayor of San Francisco - and Malia Cohen - elected to the vacant seat - on the California Board of Equalization.

Both Malia Cohen and London Breed cannot sleep well - and right so - they will have to come before some adjudication - and both are as corrupt as they come.

There are others out there - working as consultants for the San Francisco Public Utilities - doing the same - accept they cannot dole out " Community Benefits ".

One is on the Contractors' Monitoring Division - yet has got a contract at Pier 70 -  goes as a Developer much as Derf did - none worth the salt. 

Both exercising " pay to play schemes " - and both will spend - a lot of time in jail - where they belong - scumbags.

Wiretaps  collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - who were on the trail of Derf Butler for years and others too - aways win - favoring the FBI - that is patience and collects an inordinate amount of information.

Those who fall in the trap are mostly arrogant and ignorant.
In this case Derf Butler and his side-kick  Clifton Burch - both Black and both a disgrace to anything - decent.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -

dome housing the electron accelerator -

the highest standards are required to perform

such a job - and the idiots fell for the trap.

The FBI  collected  sensitive information where both Clifton Burch and Peter McKean agreed intentionally to submit fraudulent and noncompetitive bids to the U.S. Department of Energy to  renovate a building at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Derf Butler met a developer who was actually an FBI agent July, 2013. 

The same FBI agent then met Clifton Burch and Peter McKean - both agreed to intentionally submit higher bids - higher than the $5.7 - the amount " the developer " requested - in the RFP for the project.

Greed and money is the root of all  " evil " -

in San Francisco millions of " dark money " 

these vermin has failed thousands in our beloved city -

worst the ploys and machination

 in Room 200  at SF City Hall

Clifton Burch and Peter McKean submitted bids of $7.1 million and $6.3 million - one acting as the subcontractor and the other as the constructor manager. What a shame - and what a scheme - shaming themselves and all  decent contractors - many who adhere by the strict rules and laws - and who are my good friends.

Burch and McKean were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud against the Federal Government - also conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

Both - now face a minimum sentence of 25 years - they will be sentenced by the U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on June 19, 2019. An add fine for each culprit - in the amount of $250,000.

Right now the SF Controllers' Office has information on other scumbags with links to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission - I have posted their " mug shots " on this side.

This " play to pay " must STOP - and those who aid and abate - must be sent to jail - never mind if they hold positions as Manager, Assia-General Manager - or head the Contracting Office, or pretend to push for contracts - that wallow in corruption - corruption of the highest order.

This corruption has reached saturation point in the Bayview Hunters Point - where both Derf Butler and Clifton Burch - used as their playground - with tentacles that reached far and wide.

"Dark Money " in the millions flows on Third Street - and the time has come to send these " vermin " many of them outsiders - have a field day in the Southeast Sector of San Francisco.