On Background with Susan Crabtree
On Background with Susan Crabtree
Government Accountability Institute
Newsom's Ten: The Associates He Hopes You Forget Before 2028 | Ep. 29
27 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2026 at 7:36 pm.
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Susan Crabtree and Jed McFatter return to walk through ten figures in Gavin Newsom's political orbit who later faced charges, convictions, or prison. They trace verified election coercion in his first run for San Francisco mayor, the bribery cases reaching into his former staff, and the federal scrutiny now aimed at Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit and the millions flowing between it and her for-profit film company. The conversation closes on the socialist wave in New York and what it signals for Los Angeles and California.
Read the reporting referenced in this episode in the California Globe and City Journal. Get the full investigation in the book Fool's Gold.