This is bad and am glad they found it but with what is going on at the federal level this feels miniscule and not even a rounding error.

One example out of hundreds - the kids purchased shares in a Kazakh tungsten mining venture just before the U.S. government backed deal was finalized.

That's true but this is one of many SF scandals (Nuru & Dept of Public Works, Recology rate-fixing, Dream Keeper Initiative & Sheryl Davis, Hunters Point Tetra Tech botched cleanup, DBI & SFPUC probes) in recent history