Ex-San Francisco Utilities Head Gets Four-Year Fraud Sentence

The former general manager of San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission, Harlan Kelly Jr., has been sentenced to a term of four years’ imprisonment plus three years’ supervised release and a $10,000 fine on fraud charges.

Judge Richard Seeborg announced the sentence Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Kelly was convicted on one count of honest services fraud and one count of conspiring to defraud his mortgage lender in July 2023. He was acquitted on two additional honest services wire fraud counts.

Prosecutors had asked for six and a half years’ imprisonment for the 62-year-old ...