"Carrillo also criticized The Press Democrat, which became aware of some sexual assault allegations against Foppoli in 2019, but ultimately did not write about them at the time.
That year, then-Press Democrat reporter Alexandria Bordas spoke with two women who told her they’d been assaulted by Foppoli. When she relayed those accounts to her supervisors, “editors failed to follow through and pursue the story,” wrote then-executive editor Richard Green in a front-page mea culpa to readers on April 9, 2021. He’d arrived at the newspaper two months earlier and been unaware of the Foppoli allegations.
Bordas began working for the San Francisco Chronicle, which after months of investigative work, on April 8, 2021 published a “Special Report” with claims by four women against Foppoli. By the end of the next month, 13 women had come forward.
That bombshell began a chain reaction of events..."
Austin Murphy
"News analysis: $15 million jury verdict against ex-Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli strikes a blow to Sonoma County’s ‘old boy network’"
