Jose Susumo Azano Matsura confidante Ernesto Encinas, a former San Diego Police Department detective, begins donating to District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis' mayoral campaign.
La Jolla car dealer Marc Chase donates to Dumanis' mayoral campaign using Azano's money. He later admits to funneling $6,500 to Dumanis through straw donors for Azano.
Dumanis recalls few details of a luncheon with Azano. The meeting happened, according to Dumanis, in "early 2012" so the exact date isn't known.
Encinas offers a six-figure contribution to the PAC of the deputy district attorney's union to support Dumanis' mayoral bid, the union's president said.
Azano spends $100,000 to help Dumanis with social media, prosecutors say. The spending began sometime in February 2012.
A Gore spokeswoman said the group talked about golf and other mundane topics. Encinas also attended.
Ravi Singh's firm begins hosting Dumanis' mayoral campaign website. Dumanis never discloses the service on campaign forms.
Azano starts a Dumanis mayoral PAC, funneling $100,000 through a shell company he controlled.
A medical marijuana activist takes video of an electronic billboard promoting Dumanis on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro border crossing.
She receives 13 percent of the vote.
Dumanis sent a recommendation letter to the University of San Diego for Azano's son. She released the letter after media pressure in July 2014.
The basket cost $150 and Dumanis disclosed it. She gave the basket to her staff and later refunded the money.
White-collar defense attorney Bob Brewer begins a campaign against Dumanis.
Prosecutors say Encinas met with a wiretapped informant who worked for Dumanis about Azano contributing to her re-election campaign.
Prosecutor Terri Wyatt declares she'll challenge Dumanis for district attorney.
Prosecutors' charges against Encinas and Singh are unsealed. Dumanis is "Candidate 1" in the charging documents.
She tells U-T San Diego that they met only one time, through Encinas.
Prosecutors allege in court that Azano wanted to turn San Diego's bayfront into "Miami West."
Dumanis tells U-T San Diego about the luncheon at Azano's house. She says she might have met Azano more than once.
Dumanis pledges to return all the money from her mayoral and district attorney campaigns linked to the scandal.
Prosecutors charge Azano with trying to illegally influence American elections as a foreigner.
Encinas pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States and tax evasion.
Chase pleads guilty to funneling campaign money from Azano to Dumanis and other local politicians.
Dumanis won outright with 55 percent of the vote, allowing her to skip a November runoff.
Dumanis appears on a television station to release the letter and declare it "much ado about nothing."
In a court filing in his criminal case, Azano says Sempra Energy and Encinas are to blame for his legal woes. Dumanis, he said, did nothing wrong.
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