Subject: Richard Newsom

• Before She Was Speaker

  Nancy Pelosi's forgotten cameo in the savings and loan scandal.

  March 4, 2009

• Bonfire of the Profanities

  An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  March 4, 2009

• Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

  Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement running a couple columns below Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. "You can now earn: 1 year -- 11.00 percent," the advertisement announces, urging readers to go to a Web site describing "investment notes"

  July 17, 2009

• Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

  July 29, 2009

• Department of Can't Say We Didn't Warn Ya: Dicey Investment Offer Advertised in Chronicle Goes Bad

  ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company specializing in small business credit cards announced today it was filing for bankruptcy, throwing into question whether the company would pay in-full investment notes advertised in the Chronicle's bus

  November 9, 2009

• S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

  November 18, 2009