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Subject: Susan Illston

  • Attorney for Bonds' Trainer Sums Up Ahab-Like Prosecution of Slugger as Testosterone-Fueled 'Game of Chicken'

    Paula Canny, seen here with client Greg Anderson, says the Barry Bonds case has become 'a guys' contest'When Paula Canny, the friend of and attorney for Barry Bonds' embattled former trainer Greg Anderson, is asked why the government has gone to such lengths to prosecute the former San Francisco Giant, she answers with one quick word: "Testosterone." It's not that her client is accused of finding novel ways of boosting (and masking) the amount of that substance in Bonds' body. She feels this is

    February 9, 2009
  • Bonds Trainer's Attorney Gives Sneak Preview of What He'll Say in Court: Nothing

    Paula Canny says her client Greg Anderson will be seen but not heard once againTrainer's lawyer labels him "The male Susan McDougal," means it in a good way.  Greg Anderson's court appearances have become as predictable as his former employer Barry Bonds' plate appearances with runners on second and third and two outs. Both are guaranteed intentional passes.Anderson has already spent more than a year incarcerated for refusing to spill the beans on Bonds. So, when he's called to testify on F

    February 26, 2009
  • Ex-S.F. Supe Ed Jew's New Defense: My Brain Hurt

    Aaron FarmerTapioca Ed Jew now blames a brain-freeze (of sorts) for his corruptionA tired writer could describe Ex-Supervisor Ed Jew's rise and fall as "meteoric" -- but, then, meteors don't really rise that often. So let's liken Jew to a bottle rocket -- he ascended gloriously before flaming out for all to see and falling back to the earth in singed chunks.Jew's final descent concludes -- so far as we can tell -- on Friday, when he is sentenced for extorting $80,000 from San Francisco tapioca-d

    April 1, 2009
  • Ed Jew's Achy Breaky Brain Defense Backfires: Disgraced Ex-Supe Nailed With 64-Month Sentence

    Aaron FarmerIt appears we really won't have Ed Jew to kick around anymore -- which is good, because we could further injure his brain, and then God knows what mischief he'd get himself into. Days after Jew's lawyer seriously claimed that a childhood head injury led to the former D-4 supervisor extorting $80,000 from Chinese-speaking Tapioca drink shop owners, Judge Susan Illston handed down a 5-year, 4-month sentence -- harsher than the 57 months prosecutors had even deigned to request and far w

    April 3, 2009
  • Pay to Play

    The son of a world—renowned chef says he wanted to reform the phone industry. The feds say he wanted to get rich quick.

    February 7, 2007
  • 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
  • Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, January 19, 2005

    January 19, 2005
  • Countdown to Burlingame

    A guide to television coverage of the enhanced drama and athleticism of the 2004 Alternolympics

    August 4, 2004
  • Missed Interpretation

    Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

    March 13, 2002
  • Dog Bites

    December 20, 1995