SFGate by Nanette Asimov March 27, 2014
Keith Jackson, Former S.F. Education Official, Accused In Murder-For-Hire Scheme
(03-26) 18:18 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Keith Jackson, accused by the FBI on Wednesday of being involved in a murder-for-hire scheme and a gun- and drug-trafficking conspiracy, was San Francisco's top elected educator during the late 1990s...Jackson called the inquiry a racially motivated attack. Jackson is black.
Jackson last made news in 2009 while working as a representative of Lennar Corp., which some in the black community have accused of exposing children to toxic dust during its development of the Hunters Point Shipyard.
Jackson took out a restraining order against one of his harshest critics, a Nation of Islam minister who barred him from leaving a community meeting, Jackson told SF Weekly at the time. He said the minister called him an "Uncle Tom" for representing the developers and asked how he could "kill the babies."