SAN FRANCISCO – A city employee with the San Francisco Department of Human Resources was charged with multiple felony counts over suspected misuse of grant funds connected to an alleged City Hall bribery scheme, prosecutors said.
Stanley Ellicott, 38, a manager in the department, is accused of misappropriating funds awarded through the city’s Community Challenge Grant Program, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
A criminal complaint filed by the District Attorney’s Office said that from May 2017 to July 2021, Ellicott helped Lanita Henriquez, director of San Francisco’s Community Challenge Grant Program, in the misappropriation of public money for her and others’ use.
Prosecutors said Ellicott had six violations, including aiding and abetting Henriquez’s financial conflict of interest in six Community Challenge Grant contracts that she entered in to on behalf of the city with entities belonging to and controlled by former city employee Rudolph Dwayne Jones.