what can you tells about clark howitz? >> it's an interesting story.initely something going on here. he's worked with the finance authority for 20 years and the people i spoke with who know him say he didn't show any signs of crisis that would make him do something desperate. but one person did tell me that he's in the process of getting divorced. we don't know if that's playing into this at all. he was out of town all last week when this was discovered and no one has heard if from him since except he sent his boss an e-mail saying i'm resigning and going to pay back the money. >> did he steal half the money? how's he going to beta back? >> he did retain a criminal defense attorney because even if he pays the money back he still allegedly committed a crime and paying the money back might help with the sentencing. it's still won't erasing what he perhaps did. in the meantime, the finance authority is still on the hook for that missing money. city attorney dennis herrera demanded the finance authority pay the full amount that it owes to the soma stabiliz

his name is clark howitz. i have part of the association of bay area governments and would like to call supervisor kim for calling for a major hearing so we can hear all the details. i know there is litigation going on. even though i'm on the association of bay area governments administrative committee, which met last night, i have been prevented from participating in different suggestions of settlements, but i know from public comments from the association of bay area governments and the financial authority for non-profits that the full amount of the funds will be returned to san francisco as soon as possible out of the finance authority for non-profits reserves, i believe. also, my understanding is there will be some type of independent audit that the association of bay area governments will be strongly supporting as well. for facts, i think some of you know that this employee of the financial authority for non-profits may have embezzled approximately $1.3 million of funds that were supposed to be designated