The State - News from Dec. 19, 1986
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San Francisco’s top welfare official resigned amid reports that he dined at posh eateries while billing a modest city account intended to help feed the poor. Edwin Sarsfield, the $93,000-a-year general manager of the Department of Social Services, submitted his resignation to the city’s Social Services Commission after 11 years in the job. The commission voted 3 to 2 to accept his resignation. The San Francisco Examiner reported this week that Sarsfield billed the city $2,141 for business meals between 1985 and 1986, charging them to a $4,000 city “foodstuffs” fund.
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