“In an email to the San Francisco Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verified that he was a Lennar senior executive in March of 2004 at the time San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, his cousin for whom he had served as mayoral campaign treasurer, had signed the Hunters Point Shipyard Conveyance Agreement at the behest of Laurence’s Aunt Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. (San Francisco Bay View, April 5, 2009)

“After resigning from Lennar in May of 2004 – immediately before the shipyard conveyance legislation went before numerous City boards and commissions for approval – Laurence Pelosi joined the board of directors of the influential urban development think tank SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research) and went to work for Morgan Stanley.

“At a Dec. 14, 2003, hearing of the San Francisco Redevelopment Commission compounded by arrests, civil rights violations and invasions on the constitutional rights of the free press, the Redevelopment Agency approved a Disposition and Development Agreement granting Lennar Corp. of Miami, a company that enjoyed annual sales of $9 billion, exclusive development rights for the shipyard.

“San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom memorialized his violations of state and local ethics laws in January of 2005 by signing into law the Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment measures he sponsored before the Board of Supervisors and accepting, in an official ceremony, the transfer of Shipyard Parcel A from the Secretary of the Navy in exchange for one dollar!

…The agreement came a few weeks after the Navy sent Newsom a letter saying it was having doubts about going ahead with a January 2004 symbolic agreement that had been announced, with potentially embarrassing fanfare, in Washington by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, former Mayor Willie Brown and Navy Secretary Gordon England. According to the Chronicle, Newsom met in the Capitol offices of “Aunt Nancy” on March 31, 2004.

“In attendance were Navy Assistant Secretary Hansford T. Johnson, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., the ranking Democrat on the House Military Appropriations subcommittee, brought in by Pelosi to convince the Navy the time for delays had passed. Murtha made it clear he wanted a binding agreement signed “by Wednesday.”

“The Navy signed the accord despite new concerns the Radiological Affairs Support Office raised about the safety of the property for residential development due to the release of a massive investigation into the use of radioactive materials at the shipyard from 1939 to 2003. base at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Anderson, a principle partner in Treasure Island Community Development, held a fundraiser in his Sacramento office in March to help Newsom retire his $400,000 campaign debt.”