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The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right): Francis J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older, and Rudolph Spreckels. The San Francisco graft trials were a series of attempts from 1905 to 1908 to prosecute public officials in the city of San Francisco, California, for graft and other political corruption.
Francis Joseph Heney (March 17, 1859 – October 31, 1937) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Heney is known for killing an opposing plaintiff in self-defense and for being shot in the head by a prospective juror during the San Francisco graft trials.
Political boss Abe Ruef (left) on his way to San Quentin State Prison after he was convicted in the San Francisco Graft Trial of 1907–1908. In October 1906, Ruef ordered that District Attorney William Langdon be suspended, had himself named in Langdon's place, and as his first order, dismissed Langdon's deputy, Francis J. Heney. [7]
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The San Francisco Bay Guardian free weekly alternative newspaper ceases publication after 48 years (logo pictured) The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals to win the World Series, their third championship in five seasons; Ross William Ulbricht is arrested in San Francisco, charged with running the Silk Road dark web online ...
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.
1905–08: San Francisco graft trials. Abe Ruef—the only person convicted as part of the graft trials; pleaded guilty to bribery and sentenced to 14 years in prison; 1946: Battle of Alcatraz; 1947: Black Dahlia murder; 1965: 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack; Watts riots; 1968–69: Zodiac Killer murders five known victims; 1968: Assassination ...
By 1980, after a year-long trip to Europe, the Carsons returned to the U.S. and moved into the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California, where they continued their involvement with drugs and the counterculture. By this time, Michael's former wife had become afraid that he would harm her and try to abduct their child, and took ...