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Nancy Pelosi's son is embroiled in SIXTH FBI probe - this time into San Francisco official who was allegedly bribed to remove permit violations against squalid flop house 'The Pit', owned by his ex-girlfriend

Nancy Pelosi's son is embroiled in an FBI investigation into a San Francisco official who was allegedly bribed to turn a blind eye to a corrupt real estate plot.

Paul Pelosi Jr. and at least three of his associates were interviewed by agents in a five-year investigation that resulted in an indictment of a prolific building permit fixer for allegedly bribing a city official.

The bribery scheme included an alleged plan to remove permit violations on a squalid flop house owned by Pelosi Jr.’s girlfriend.

Earlier this month a DailyMail.com investigation revealed Pelosi Jr., 53, has been linked to five previous federal probes. This ongoing criminal case is the sixth.

San Francisco permit expediter Rodrigo Santos, a former president of the San Francisco Building Inspection Commission, was indicted for fraud in November.

Prosecutors claim he arranged for his clients to donate thousands of dollars to building inspector Bernie Curran's favorite non-profit - a rugby club - in exchange for city permits.

Curran and Santos deny wrongdoing. They are next due in court on February 4.

One of Santos's clients, named only as 'Client 9' in the FBI documents, wrote the Golden Gate Youth Rugby Association a check for $1,500 to encourage Curran to remove violation notices against a squalid Mission District 'hotel' - known among building inspectors as 'The Pit' - which had a long history of dangerous permit violations, according to text messages obtained by the feds.

Though prosecutors did not name Santos's clients, Pelosi Jr. was reportedly trying to get permits and remedy code violations for the troubled 'residential hotel' at 1312 Utah Street at the time – suggesting that he could be the mysterious Client 9, and placing him at the center of a public official bribery scandal.

FBI agents interviewed and subpoenaed Pelosi Jr.'s associates including his ex-girlfriend, the building's one-time owner, her lawyer, and a consultant in a sale of the grim 17-room hovel.

All four said the agents asked questions about Pelosi Jr. and his involvement in the property.

Nancy's son himself admitted he was 'helping remove the citations from the property' in an interview with a local government agency worker who wrote up the statements in a February 2019 report obtained by DailyMail.com.

Pelosi Jr.'s involvement matches the description of Client 9 in prosecutor's files as 'an individual working on behalf of the owners of the property'.

He did not respond to DailyMail.com's requests for comment. 

The federal criminal complaint against Curran and Santos details alleged text messages between the permit fixer and Client 9, appearing to discuss the bribery scheme with shocking candor.

'I will forward the address to Curran. He will abate it,' Santos, 63, allegedly wrote to his client.

'Please drop off a check payable to Golden Gate Youth [Rugby] Association for $1k. Bernie's nonprofit.'

'With pleasure,' Client 9 replied, and later sent Santos a picture of a $1,500 check with the message: 'made the donation and it is being sent today.'

It is unclear why Client 9 wrote a check for $1,500 instead of $1,000 as allegedly requested by Santos in the text messages. 

The check was never deposited by the club, and prosecutors have not accused it of any wrongdoing.

Curran, 61, told DailyMail.com that Santos introduced him to Pelosi Jr. in the Department of Building Inspection offices, telling Curran that Pelosi Jr. was a friend with whom he went jogging.

The recently fired building inspector is livid, claiming he knew nothing about Santos's alleged scheme or checks to charities and said he has acted professionally and ethically his whole 40-year career.

An anonymous building inspector claimed in an interview with San Francisco news site Mission Local that in 2018 Pelosi Jr. met with him several times and was trying to 'get rid of Notices of Violation' on 1312 Utah Street. 

'He was never overt with me on how to take care of this,' he continued. 

'I was like, hey, if he wants to take me there, I could say, 'fix this, do this' — that's what I do. But he would never go to the property.

'The things I was telling him were pretty straightforward. But he would never go there.'

Another ex-girlfriend of Pelosi Jr., Nicole Bulick, 46, told DailyMail.com that the FBI's interest in his involvement in the troubled Utah Street flop house began in 2017, and that he was interviewed three times.

'Paul's been under FBI investigation like three times over this,' she said. 'Maybe in the summer of 2017.

'The FBI looked at this for almost two years. They called me too… He went and spoke with the FBI three times.'

Pelosi Jr.'s business associate Naveen Singha, who acted as a consultant for him on the sale of 1312 Utah Street, also said he was interviewed by federal agents about the Speaker's son around May 2019. 

'They showed up at my warehouse and said 'tell us about this guy.' They were good-looking, they reminded me of Agents Mulder and Scully from the X-Files,' Singha said.

'They were looking at Paul regarding the Utah Street property.'

Emails obtained by DailyMail.com show Singha was given a subpoena by the agents and shared documents with them about the slum hotel building.

The former owner of the property, Karena Apple Feng, said she was interviewed by the same agents over several months, about 1312 Utah Street and Paul Pelosi Jr.'s involvement.

Special Agent Jason Richards, who has previously been involved in federal busts on mortgage fraud, emailed Feng, 46, in February 2019 asking for her location.

Feng's Oakland-based lawyer, Kevin Martin, wrote to her a month earlier saying 'two FBI agents came by my office yesterday asking for details and information about the Utah property transaction. They presented me with a subpoena directed to you at my care seeking the relative documents.'

The subpoena asks for 'any and all records regarding property located at 2601 24th Avenue,' an alternate address for the building on the corner of Utah Street and 24th Avenue.

Pelosi Jr.'s links to the troubled Utah Street property date back decades, to when the ground floor was the site for a massage therapy and herbal medicine clinic, run by Feng's father.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, he, his father Paul Pelosi Sr. and even Nancy on occasion would frequent the clinic for foot massages.