Subject: Joseph Russoniello

• Oakland Non-Profit Sold Illegal Drugs

  February 22, 2008

• Dog Bites

  April 17, 1996

• US Attorney Spars with Hastings Law Students Over Pot Laws

  The most compelling question from the Hastings panel on pot: How could two guys with such different opinions on marijuana think so similarly about fashion? Was this planned?Hastings law students with the munchies and a keen interest in how changes in federal priorities on marijuana enforcement would affect them the average Californian in these times of change filled a classroom Wednesday to spar with Northern California's top drug warrior. Hastings student Elizabeth Leeper grabbe

  April 8, 2009

• Untouchable

  Half of U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's lawyers have quit. But as he remains bunkered against criticism, who's minding the shop?

  October 4, 2006

• Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

  Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  July 13, 2005

• Legal Pirouette

  Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position, agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press

  February 23, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005

  February 9, 2005

• The Grid

  September 4, 1996

• Fish Story: Man Sued in S.F. Court For Allegedly Smuggling Endangered Species Into U.S., Passing Them Off As Big Goldfish

  Catch of the day -- a Red ArowanaIs that an Asian Arowana in your pants or are you just happy to see us? That's not how court proceedings commenced in the case of United States vs. Bin Lin Huang -- but it could have. San Francisco U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello this month filed suit against Huang, accusing him of smuggling 26 Asian arowana fish from China and Southeast Asia into the United States, selling them for between $1,000 and $10,000 a pop, and telling U.S. Fish and Wildlife Inspectors

  May 18, 2009

• Feds complain that S.F.'s sanctuary city policies impeded investigation of Latino gang

  October 21, 2009

• Chronic City: N. California's Top Federal Prosecutor -- 'Really Not A Change At All' In Medical Pot Enforcement

  ​Ah, "guidelines." They're a little more lax than "rules," which are a little looser than "laws." When it comes to guidelines, that's their strength -- and that's their weakness. Whereas laws and rules are "broken," guidelines can simply be "ignored."That truism is abundantly illustrated by this week's statements from George W. Bush appointee Joseph Russoniello, federal prosecutor for the northern district of California. "I think it's unfortunate that people have for some reason picked up on t

  November 3, 2009

• City Attorney May Seek Court Ruling on Legality of New Sanctuary Policy

  City Attorney Dennis Herrera indicated today that he might seek a ruling from a federal court assuring the legality of San Francisco's newly minted sanctuary policy, shortly after supervisors voted to override Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of the law. The new city policy establishes a more permissive approach to undocumented youths who are arrested.Dennis Herrera, man in the middle​In a letter to U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello, posted on the city attorney's Web site, Herrera asks that Russoniell

  November 10, 2009

• Sanctuary Sellout

  November 18, 2009