S.F. permit expediter agrees to plead guilty as feds deepen probe of Public Works corruption

Charges were unsealed Wednesday alleging that a former San Francisco permit expediter helped carry out fraud for more than 15 years. U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson announced that 70-year-old Walter Wing Lok Wong conspired with former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and other unnamed city officials since as early as 2004 to defraud the public through a scheme involving bribery, kickbacks and the concealment of material information. A second count also alleges that Wong conspired with Nuru…