San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a statement Friday morning detailing her friendship, former romance and a “gift” from former public works director Mohammed Nuru who was arrested on charges of corruption.

Mayor Breed is revealing new details in an essay on the website Medium, saying she wants to “dispel some unfortunate rumors that have already begun to circulate.”

…

ABC7 News sat down with Stanford Law Professor Deborah Rhode for more insight on if Mayor Breed broke the law when she accepted Nuru’s gift.

“Law prohibits accepting gift from someone whom you have a supervisory relationship and the mayor in this case had firing and hiring authority over this individual,” said Professor Rhode. “But that’s the state ethics law, there’s a local law that doesn’t have the exception. And the notion that she accepted this temporarily and was planning to pay it back I think compounds the problem here.”