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BY DAVID JOHNSTON A TALE OF “I have repeatedly stated that TWO HOUSES the first order of business of my administration is to restore the Top: Moscone moves faith of the people in their government.” up, four months —George Moscone, one after becoming month after taking office as mayor, by pur* mayor, in a Feb. 5, 1976 chasing this new pressrelease $200,000house at 45 St. Francis our months after F George Moscone was Blvd. in St. Francis elected mayor of San Wood. Francisco, he sold his Bottom: Moscone’sold relatively modest house at 90 house at 90 Lansdale Ave. and Lansdale Ave. moved into a house about twice as expensive ($200,000 or so) at 45 St. Francis Blvd. in the heart city and pays no property taxes, accord¬ of the exclusive St. Francis Wood ing to the assessor’s records. section of San Francisco. In fact, the 1978 Realty Index, listing These two seemingly simple property owners throughout the city, actions produce a lot of curious shows that the property is owned by questions, as disclosed in a Marion Cardinal, who along with her husband, Robert, bought the property Guardian review of Moscone’s on June 30, 1967. economic interest statement and other public documents involv¬ Question 2. Did Moscone pur¬ ing the two houses. They pro¬ chase the house? duce further questions in light of While the San Francisco assessor’s of¬ fice had no record of George Moscone’s disclosures in the Guardian and owning any property in San Francisco, elsewhere that Moscone may the San Francisco recorder’s files of real have accepted payoffs of up to estate transactions contain a curious $50,000 from the Howard document. It is called a “memorandum of a contract of sale,” is dated April 5, Hughes interests to reverse his 1976, and is signed by Marion Cardinal, position against airport expan¬ George Moscone and his wife Eugenia sion and give favorable treat¬ Moscone (see document 2).