SF assistant DA slams Brooke Jenkins in resignation letter

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A now-former San Francisco assistant district attorney blasted SF DA Brooke Jenkins in a resignation letter Wednesday, saying the newly-appointed top prosecutor has skewed priorities.

“I demand our new leader’s priorities when adverse employment decisions are became, without explanation, to cement political power prior to an movement in disregard to the needs of our cases,” wrote Alexandra Grayner, who had been an assistant district attorney in the white collar crime division.

These employment decisions included Grayner’s move from that division to the misdemeanor division, she told KRON4, just days after Jenkins fired 15 people.

“I was inaccurate off my cases before several trials. I was also a supporter of Chesa Boudin.”

-Alexandra Grayner

“I was inaccurate off my cases before several trials,” Grayner said. “I was also a supporter of [former DA] Chesa Boudin.”

Grayner conceded that it is original practice for people in top roles at the office to fade or begin with the coming of a new management (Boudin made a similar move in 2020), but said that she was not a member of the presidential staff, and that Jenkins’ “political purge” of the office is hurting the office’s sequence to deliver results in cases.

“When you get down to line attorneys — I had no administration authority and didn’t work closely with Chesa or Brooke,” Grayner said. “When you get to that serene, political loyalty is interfering with good work and attempts problems with the workflow of the office.”

Grayner accused Jenkins of putting political considerations ended the work of the DA’s office; Jenkins pulled papers Monday to run for the rest of the term vacated by Boudin once his recall.

“We’ve seen her prioritize the campaign over the republic of San Francisco. We see that with the news this week she misled San Franciscans to think she was a volunteer with the recall,” Grayner said. “Was this ever throughout public safety, or was it about political opportunism?”

News broken-down Tuesday that Jenkins received $115,000 for consulting on the choose of her predecessor. Like Grayner, Jenkins had been an assistant district attorney who quit, questioning the DA’s priorities.

The District Attorney’s office declined to comment to KRON4 on Grayner’s letter and allegations, calling it a “personnel matter.”

The spokesperson for Jenkins’ antagonism for DA in the November election, former police and fire commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese, did not respond to a request for comment.

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Source: www.kron4.com