The former chief executive of a San Francisco nonprofit that contracted with the city to serve homeless people was charged with stealing $91,000 and misappropriating more than $1.2 million in public funds, city prosecutors said Monday.
Gwendolyn Westbrook, former CEO of the United Council of Human Services, was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on nine felony charges of misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, presenting a false invoice and filing false state tax returns, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. Westbrook, 71, could not be immediately reached for comment.
Founded in 1983, the United Council of Human Services began as a mobile food outreach program for low-income and homeless people and ran a soup kitchen in the Bayview, called Mother Brown’s Dining Room. Westbrook, a former city worker, had led the Bayview nonprofit for nearly two decades before her dismissal in 2023 as accusations of financial mismanagement mounted against her organization…