Subject: Ben Rosenfield

• Point Adachi: Controller's Audit of Public Defender's Office Bolsters Claim Farming Out Cases to Private Attorneys Would Cost City More

  Richard BuiJeff Adachi survived his probing by the city controller -- and is now proudly boasting the resultsSome of you may remember the very public tête-à-tête between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd earlier this year. Sparked by Adachi's request to hire more paralegals, Elsbernd said the public defender was "horrible" at keeping a budget, while Adachi replied that Elsbernd "has no idea what he's doing." The spat kicked off Adachi's ongoing feud with the mayor ov

  June 24, 2009