Where Crime Pays

Hallinan notes accurately that Triple A could still be on the federal hook for its share of the costs paid by the Navy, thus far the vast majority of outlays on planning, carrying out, and monitoring the cleanup. However, he should be mindful that Navy spending, in fact, is taxpayer funded.

And S.F. voters can rightly ask if their DA is wise merely to hope that federal prosecutors will pursue an environmental criminal that he could have nailed himself.