SF: U.S. attorney probes 'Run, Ed, Run' group

[RandySF]

Call it what you will - inquiry, preliminary investigation or full-blown inquest - but the U.S. attorney's office has begun gathering information about Progress for All, the now-disbanded group behind the "Run, Ed, Run" campaign to draft interim Mayor Ed Lee into running for a full term, a source told City Insider.

The group has been the subject of complaints by both local Democratic Party Chairman Aaron Peskin and retired Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp, who have asked for investigations into its conduct.

Peskin's request went to the city's Ethics Commission over campaign finance issues and the possibility that Progress for All was coordinating its activities with Lee in violation of election law.

Kopp requested a criminal inquiry after The Chronicle reported that Rose Pak, a Lee confidante and fundraiser for Progress for All, had solicited help for the "Run, Ed, Run" campaign from Recology, the city's garbage-collection contractor, which at the time had a $112 million contract to ship waste to a landfill in Yuba County pending before the Board of Supervisors.



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