SAN FRANCISCO — For about eight years, Sharon Pearl collected rent from the tenants leasing space in the State Bar building at 180 Howard St. in San Francisco. Only it may have been going into her own pockets.

Late Monday, the attorney general’s office filed embezzlement and tax evasion charges against the State Bar’s former director of real property, and accused her of keeping more than $675,000 in rent and related payments by tenants.