Woke DA is dragged into toxic nepotism fight as she's accused of hiring her marijuana selling friend on $300,000 salary with no qualification

San Francisco's arguable DA Brooke Jenkins has been accused of nepotism aft hiring an aged friend pinch nary ineligible qualifications to tally her agency connected an eye-watering salary.

Nursing professor Monifa Willis was fixed nan $300,000 occupation successful March, 2 years aft Jenkins asked her to caput nan department's Victim Services Division.

The brace were connected aforesaid precocious schoolhouse track-and-field squad and person hung retired together astatine restaurants, shot games and waxing salons successful nan past 3 years according to their Venmo accounts.

Jenkins did not advertise nan station and allowed nan erstwhile marijuana trader to her to support her $100,000 part-time school occupation astatine UCSF, contempt rules banning jobs that mightiness interfere pinch nan office's work.

'Nepotism erodes nationalist trust,' said Ryan Khojasteh who challenging Jenkins for her job. 'As San Franciscans, we merit amended from our District Attorney's Office.'

Whistleblowers told the SF Standard that Willis's obligations were already damaging nan section erstwhile she was successful complaint of Victim Services.

'Stuff fell done nan cracks each nan clip because she was excessively engaged doing 2 jobs,' a erstwhile staffer said. 'I've seen her (teaching online) classes during activity hours.

'She was fixed this position because she knew nan DA.'

And a erstwhile elder administrator successful nan agency said ineligible qualifications are a pre-requisite for doing nan occupation effectively.

'You person to person immoderate basal knowing of nan criminal justness system, and you don't get that arsenic a unfortunate services advocate,' he added.

Jenkins was appointed DA by metropolis politician London Breed successful July 2022 aft campaigning for nan callback of incumbent Chesa Boudin.

She stepped into a domiciled erstwhile held by Vice-President Kamala Harris promising to 'hold supplier dealers accountable for their crimes' and 'end open-air supplier markets' which had been allowed to proliferate nether her predecessor.

But nan number of group surviving connected nan streets has soared to much than 8,000 arsenic businesses and residents person continued their exodus from nan bosom of nan city.

An exacting occupation explanation for nan domiciled of DA chief-of-staff says nan agency holder 'oversees, develops and delegates responsibilities for basal processes of nan city's preeminent rule enforcement agency including areas of argumentation and legislation, staffing, communications, information and research, unfortunate services, organization engagement, beforehand agency operations and each ample standard projects/changes and implementations that impacts nan Office'.

Willis's acquisition includes clip arsenic nan CEO of a now defunct marijuana dispensary called New Life CA.

Neighboring Contra Costa County requires its DA's chief-of-staff to person a rule licence and 10 years of master ineligible experience.

San Francisco requires 4 years of managerial acquisition successful a legal, legislative aliases objective societal environment.

But Jenkins said Willis was eminently qualified erstwhile she announced nan assignment successful March, hailing her 'wealth of operational acquisition arsenic an organizer that has successfully launched authorities recognized intelligence wellness programming and improved infirmary operations to amended service children and families'.

'I americium proud to person Monifa Willis service arsenic my main of staff,' Jenkins told nan SF Standard.

'I person had nan grant and privilege of knowing Monifa for years and americium excited to activity pinch her successful this capacity.'

The questions emerged conscionable days aft a erstwhile worker of nan Victim Services section sued nan DA's section aft losing his occupation because of an accidental 'reply-all' email.

Jovan Thomas, 56, revenge nan title Friday, six months aft he was fired for asking Jenkins 'what color' her panties were successful a connection sent to nan full office.

Soon aft Thomas sent nan email, Chief Assistant District Attorney Ana Gonzalez sent nan agency an email saying nan rumor was being handled by nan management and asking unit to delete nan email and not stock it.

Thomas, connected his part, claimed he meant to nonstop nan connection arsenic a joke to a fraternity brother.

He was fired that day, but now claims that aft his employment was terminated, defendants violated his privateness and defamed him by misrepresenting what had happened.

'Hoping to cheer up his friend, who was distraught and grieving nan decease of his father, (Thomas) intended to matter his friend a jokey mobility of nan benignant that that plaintiff had sent his friend connected juncture successful nan past,' his lawyers claimed.

'His matter to his friend was a whimsical mobility that was portion of plaintiff's modular jocular repertoire pinch his friend.

'In nan discourse of their long-time friendship, plaintiff's flip mobility had nary sexual, off-color, obscene, misogynistic aliases sexist meaning aliases intent.'

Thomas's title alleges Jenkins and others made 'false, fraudulent, malicious and humiliating statements' astir him to nan press.

A week later, he said, he was told his termination was for cause.

He is seeking a assemblage proceedings and compensatory and punitive damages arsenic a result.