Eric Mar

Conflicts of Interest/Gift Non-Reporting

Fine: $9,500

FPPC No. 15/2201

Eric Mar, a former San Francisco County Supervisor, failed to disclose gifts from the concert promoter on his 2011-2015 Annual Statements of Economic Interests, in violation of Government Code Section 87203 and 87207, subdivision (a) (5 counts). Mar sponsored and voted in favor of a resolution before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to extend a permit for a concert on county property when he had received gifts that exceeded the state gift limit from the concert promoter within 12 months of the decisions, in violation of Government Code Section 87100 (1 count). The proposed settlement in this case was prepared in coordination with the San Francisco Ethics Commission, which imposed a penalty at its October 2017 meeting of $16,690.50 against Mar for violating a local San Francisco ordinance prohibiting public officials from receiving gifts of more than $25 from persons who contract with the official’s agency. The gifts in the San Francisco Ethics Commission action were the same gifts at issue in this case.