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Illegal Businesses

City Attorney seeks to shut down Tenderloin gambling dens

March 24, 2025October 31, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
SFPD investigation revealed two convenience stores operated illegal gambling dens, fueled drug activity, and bought and sold stolen goods

Categories Code Enforcement, Illegal Businesses, News, Public Safety

City Attorney clamps down on illegal cannabis grow houses that undermine legal cannabis market

January 28, 2025October 24, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
New lawsuit alleges owner and property manager of two Bayview warehouses allowed tenants to evade state and local laws and illegally cultivate over 5,800 cannabis plants

Categories Code Enforcement, Illegal Businesses, News

Court finds predatory immigration consulting business violated the law

January 28, 2025September 15, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Judge grants the City’s motion to stop Leo Lacayo from providing fraudulent immigration services that put immigrant communities at risk

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

City Attorney takes legal action to stop predatory immigration consulting business

January 28, 2025August 11, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
City files motion to stop Lacayo & Associates from providing fraudulent immigration services that put immigrant communities at risk

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

Herrera secures $1.2 million from rogue developer for gaming permit system

June 30, 2022July 29, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Settlement with real estate developer Ashok Gujral is a warning to other house flippers tempted to flout the law

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News Tags Ashok Gujral, developer, house flip, permits

Herrera statement on e-cigarette legislation final vote

June 25, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Board of Supervisors passes legislation unanimously on second vote

Categories Consumer Protection, E-cigarettes, Illegal Businesses, News

Herrera sues major drug producers and wholesalers for fueling opioid epidemic

September 3, 2020December 18, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit also names Sackler family members as defendants. The family made billions off OxyContin and other drugs while creating millions of addicts.

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News, Opioids

Court rules that ‘corrective education’ scheme is extortion

January 17, 2018August 15, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said today's ruling "goes to the heart of CEC's predatory business model, which is predicated on threats, deception and falsehoods."
‘This is textbook extortion,’ court finds. Herrera wins on two key issues in the case.

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

Court rejects Kihagi’s bid to derail Herrera’s lawsuit over evictions, code violations

June 30, 2022December 15, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Litigation against notoriously vicious landlord’s serial evictions of rent-controlled tenants, refusal to obey housing laws now proceeds to Jan. 12 injunction hearing

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Kihagi, Tenants

‘Ruthless predator’ Kihagi faces injunction bid by Herrera to halt evictions, code violations

June 30, 2022December 4, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Notorious landlord and real estate investor’s harassment of rent-controlled tenants, refusal to obey housing laws force City Attorney to seek extraordinary relief

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Kihagi, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

All three illegal parking apps on hiatus in S.F. as Herrera’s Cease-and-Desist deadline passes

July 23, 2015July 11, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney, grateful that Monkey Parking, ParkModo and Sweetch are honoring request, to remain vigilant against those who would hold ‘public parking hostage’

Categories Illegal Businesses, News

Herrera tells Monkey Parking to drop mobile app for auctioning city parking spots

August 18, 2015June 23, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Motorists face $300 fines for each violation under existing law, City Attorney says — and three startups could be liable for penalties of up to $2,500 for each transaction

Categories Illegal Businesses, News Tags Monkey Parking

Illegal gambling café to close, as gambling software company ends business statewide

September 1, 2015January 30, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera negotiates lawsuit settlement that will end operations at “café” that had become magnet for criminal activity

Categories Illegal Businesses, News Tags Figure 8, Illegal Gambling, Net Stop

Herrera sues to shutter illegal gambling operation in Excelsior District

September 7, 2015November 7, 2013 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Civil complaint alleges that Net Stop’s on-site computerized slot machines violate state and local law, draw more criminal activity, and create a neighborhood nuisance

Categories Illegal Businesses, News Tags Illegal Gambling, Net Stop Business Center

Herrera settles smoke shops litigation with tough injunctions, penalties

September 24, 2015June 24, 2011 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Injunction subjects the shop operators to heightened scrutiny and provides the City with a swift and severe remedy should future violations occur

Categories Illegal Businesses, News Tags House of, Smoke Shops

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