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She accepted Johnson’s resignation on Sunday and appointed Assistant City Administrator Betsy Lake as his interim replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acted decisively,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts surfaced alongside documents subpoenaed during the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\"> FBI’s ongoing corruption investigation\u003c/a> into Thao, who appointed Johnson as city administrator in 2023 to oversee the city’s day-to-day operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other messages from 2024, Johnson texted former Assistant City Administrator Harold Duffey, saying a female department head “had me a little giddy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling you, you have to sit next to her,” Johnson said. “I have to force myself to only look into her eyes.”[aside postID=news_12078453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260402-OakTeacherHousing-32-BL_qed.jpg']Lee alluded to Johnson when she said that she kept former members of Thao’s staff on when she took office a year ago because of the need for stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted a smooth transition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pursuit has guided much of the former East Bay representative’s first year in mayoral office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She released her first \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/News-Releases/Oakland-Mayor-Releases-Mid-Cycle-Budget-Measure-E-Spending-Plan\">budget proposal for 2026-27\u003c/a> on Friday, which will determine whether Oakland can maintain or increase critical services, or whether cuts are on the way. 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The former East Bay representative promised Oaklanders continued stability and growth. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to be able to show the rest of the country and the world and Wall Street that the chaos was going to end,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lee, another way to encourage stability in Oakland is to change the government’s structure. Lee and Council President Kevin Jenkins are pushing a ballot measure to turn Oakland into a “strong mayor” city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland currently operates under a hybrid form of government where power is split between the mayor, city administrator and city council. Lee said that the arrangement makes it difficult to hold anyone accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any form of a hybrid creates confusion, chaos and is really frustrating for residents because they don’t know where the buck stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, power would be concentrated in the mayor’s office, giving the mayor veto power over City Council votes, including the budget, and more direct oversight of city departments. Council could still override a veto with a two-thirds vote. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lee alluded to Johnson when she said that she kept former members of Thao’s staff on when she took office a year ago because of the need for stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted a smooth transition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pursuit has guided much of the former East Bay representative’s first year in mayoral office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She released her first \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/News-Releases/Oakland-Mayor-Releases-Mid-Cycle-Budget-Measure-E-Spending-Plan\">budget proposal for 2026-27\u003c/a> on Friday, which will determine whether Oakland can maintain or increase critical services, or whether cuts are on the way. Lee has pinned many of her ambitions on Measure E, a new parcel tax on the June ballot that could add $34 million in additional revenue each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also pointed to her success in reinstating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/Working-for-Oakland/Summer-Jobs-and-Internships-for-Youth/Youth-Employment-and-Training\">summer youth employment program\u003c/a>, bringing two new banks to the city and using new AI drone technology to crack down on illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has deliberately avoided public fights with the City Council, describing her approach as one of “restraint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some wonder why I don’t exercise my authority breaking ties,” she said. “Why would I break a tie to create more instability?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her reasoning, she said, is that Oakland needs to change how it’s perceived in order to compete for business investment — and the jobs and economic activity that come with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee reflected on her first anniversary in office this week. The former East Bay representative promised Oaklanders continued stability and growth. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to be able to show the rest of the country and the world and Wall Street that the chaos was going to end,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lee, another way to encourage stability in Oakland is to change the government’s structure. Lee and Council President Kevin Jenkins are pushing a ballot measure to turn Oakland into a “strong mayor” city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland currently operates under a hybrid form of government where power is split between the mayor, city administrator and city council. Lee said that the arrangement makes it difficult to hold anyone accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any form of a hybrid creates confusion, chaos and is really frustrating for residents because they don’t know where the buck stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, power would be concentrated in the mayor’s office, giving the mayor veto power over City Council votes, including the budget, and more direct oversight of city departments. Council could still override a veto with a two-thirds vote. The measure would strengthen the council in other ways, making it full-time instead of part-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The council’s Rules and Legislation Committee is set to hear the official proposal tomorrow and will decide whether to place it before voters on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, only San Francisco currently uses a true “strong mayor” system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics see Lee’s proposal as a power grab. But Lee rejected that characterization, instead arguing that it would make the city more efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to be involved in a power struggle with anybody in Oakland,” Lee said. “I want this city to function, I want the services to be delivered, and I want you to know who’s accountable, whether it’s me as mayor or whoever is elected as mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/barbara-lee-oakland-mayor-one-year-mark-22265580.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she would formally announce after the June primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to actually another four years as mayor,” she told KQED. “We have many challenges but many opportunities, and I’m determined that Oakland is going to be the cleanest and safest city in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in Oakland has publicly revealed the identity of a key FBI informant in the corruption case against former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071314/fbi-informant-tested-corruption-case-against-oaklands-former-mayor\">Mario Juarez\u003c/a>, a longtime Oakland businessman and former city council candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez is named in an order issued Monday and unsealed Tuesday, denying \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">several motions\u003c/a> to suppress evidence in the case. The motions had questioned Juarez’s credibility as an informant and the FBI’s reliance on his statements to secure search warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court records, Juarez began working with the FBI in 2024, mere weeks before agents conducted highly publicized raids on Thao and the other defendants’ homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his presence has loomed large in the case, he had yet to be publicly identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao was charged with bribery, conspiracy and fraud in an eight-count indictment in January last year. Her longtime partner, Andre Jones, and father and son recycling executives David and Andy Duong, were also charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duongs own California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s current curbside recycling contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Duong speaks with guests after the screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges a pay-to-play scheme in which the Duongs made payments to Jones through a no-show job and financed political mailers attacking Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral race. In exchange, Thao promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling contract and commit the city to purchasing shipping containers converted into housing for the homeless from a company the Duongs co-owned, according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also describes a fifth person who was allegedly involved in the scheme but has not been charged. That individual, now confirmed to be Juarez, is identified in the indictment as “CO-CONSPIRATOR 1.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motions, filed by Thao and the other defendants, had accused the FBI of failing to leave out key information about Juarez’s past in affidavits used to secure search warrants of their homes, vehicles and businesses.[aside postID=news_12071314 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_1338-2000x1500.jpg']In their motions, the defendants alleged the FBI failed to disclose that Juarez has a decades-long track record of defrauding business partners and what they described as a “documented counter-attack history” of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A simple search of Co-Conspirator 1’s name through the Alameda County Superior Court records reveals that he has been sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners,” one motion reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez, they alleged, was continuing that pattern in this case. They requested an evidentiary hearing where they could question the FBI agents who wrote the affidavits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had pushed back on that argument, saying they had amassed significant documentary evidence of the alleged corruption scheme well before interviewing Juarez, and that his statements were included merely for “context and completeness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her order, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied the defendants’ request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants present no credible evidence that the government intended to deceive or acted with reckless disregard,” she wrote. “The motion is deniable on this basis alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Courthouse in Oakland on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One warrant, she wrote, included “significant documentary evidence tying David Duong, Andy Duong, Thao, Jones, and Juarez to the alleged corruption scheme, including messages and notes from Juarez’s iCloud account, financial records showing the allegedly corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication regarding those payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Thao, Jones and David and Andy Duong either declined to comment on the order or did not return KQED’s calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez also did not respond to a text message requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal defense attorney Jay Rorty said the judge’s decision could change the calculus for the defendants, who still have the option to accept a plea deal before the case goes to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each client will now need to make difficult choices as to whether it is in their interest to resolve the case or take the risk of a more severe penalty in the event they are convicted at trial,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When images of FBI agents carrying boxes out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> home hit the news and social media in June of 2024, it was the public’s first glimpse of a possible investigation of the then-mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records now show that agents had been working for over a year on the probe that led to the indictment of Thao, her partner Andre Jones and businessmen David and Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two weeks prior to the raids, they had sat down for the first time with a man who would become a key informant in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, referred to in a January 2025 indictment as “Co-conspirator 1,” was allegedly involved in the bribery scheme, but has not been charged. His credibility — and the degree to which federal investigators relied on his claims — has now become one of the central fault lines in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is widely assumed to be Oakland businessman and former city council candidate, Mario Juarez. Juarez declined KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the dispute is a question that could shape what evidence against Oakland’s former mayor a jury ultimately sees: Did federal agents rely too heavily on a deeply controversial informant to secure search warrants of the defendants’ homes, vehicles and businesses — or did they already have enough evidence without him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheng Thao, center, stands next to her attorney, Jeff Tsai, left, as he makes a statement outside of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As defense attorneys push to suppress evidence they say was tainted by incomplete information about Juarez’s credibility, the outcome could determine how much of the government’s case survives to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors last year charged Thao, Jones and David and Andy Duong with bribery, conspiracy and fraud. They allege Thao agreed to use her power to extend the Duongs’ recycling contract, commit the city to purchase homes from a housing company co-owned by the Duongs and appoint city officials selected by the Duongs and Co-Conspirator 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the Duongs financed negative campaign mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and paid Jones for a no-show job, prosecutors allege.[aside postID=news_12064908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. Mitchell declined to comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys point to the episode as an early example of what they call Juarez’s “counter-attack” history — a pattern of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, Juarez filed a restraining order against a man who sued him for fraud.[aside postID=news_12061916 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-2-KQED.jpg']Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.[aside postID=news_12052003 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty.jpg']In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Given that the shooting occurred three days after Co-Conspirator 1 spoke to federal law enforcement, Co-Conspirator 1’s prior allegations that the Duongs had directed an assault on him, as well as suspicious phone tolls leading up to the shooting, the FBI believed that Co-Conspirator 1 may have been part of a targeted attack instigated by the Duongs,” the government’s filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Duong’s attorneys allege Juarez lied to law enforcement about what happened that night in an attempt to incriminate the Duongs and save himself from his own legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affidavit omits evidence, collected by the FBI immediately after the shooting, that suggests the shooting was not an assassination attempt but a botched car burglary,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the government’s filing, Juarez had initially reported to OPD and the FBI that he confronted two individuals breaking into this vehicle, one of whom shot at him, and he returned fire. Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.[aside postID=news_12070619 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251022_Bobby-Seale-Way_AA_023_qed.jpg']Despite that, prosecutors argue that even if the FBI agent had known Juarez shot first, it would not have undermined his belief that the shooting was targeted, since it took place three days after the FBI interviewed Juarez and because of Juarez’s allegation that he had been previously assaulted in an attack orchestrated by the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that Juarez’s inconsistent statements about the shooting and the other details about his “stale civil allegations of fraud” would not have changed the judge’s decision to sign off on the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge grants the Franks hearing, in order for the evidence to be suppressed, attorneys would need to prove that it’s more likely than not that the information left out was material to a finding of probable cause and that the FBI agent did not include it intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not sufficient to show that the agent made a simple mistake, Stanford criminal law professor Robert Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to show that the [FBI agent] goofed,” Weisberg said. “It’s not enough to show that he was negligent in doing so. Rather, you have to show that the FBI agent at least strongly suspected that he was not giving information that was clearly relevant to the question of probable cause, and maybe sort of was gambling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event there is a Franks hearing, both sides could present evidence and witnesses in open court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why Frank’s hearings can be dramatic,” he said. “It comes pretty close to calling the FBI agent a liar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. Mitchell declined to comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys point to the episode as an early example of what they call Juarez’s “counter-attack” history — a pattern of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, Juarez filed a restraining order against a man who sued him for fraud.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. 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Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite that, prosecutors argue that even if the FBI agent had known Juarez shot first, it would not have undermined his belief that the shooting was targeted, since it took place three days after the FBI interviewed Juarez and because of Juarez’s allegation that he had been previously assaulted in an attack orchestrated by the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that Juarez’s inconsistent statements about the shooting and the other details about his “stale civil allegations of fraud” would not have changed the judge’s decision to sign off on the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge grants the Franks hearing, in order for the evidence to be suppressed, attorneys would need to prove that it’s more likely than not that the information left out was material to a finding of probable cause and that the FBI agent did not include it intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not sufficient to show that the agent made a simple mistake, Stanford criminal law professor Robert Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to show that the [FBI agent] goofed,” Weisberg said. “It’s not enough to show that he was negligent in doing so. Rather, you have to show that the FBI agent at least strongly suspected that he was not giving information that was clearly relevant to the question of probable cause, and maybe sort of was gambling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event there is a Franks hearing, both sides could present evidence and witnesses in open court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why Frank’s hearings can be dramatic,” he said. “It comes pretty close to calling the FBI agent a liar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge has set a tentative start date next year for the corruption trial of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and her three co-defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao, her longtime partner Andre Jones, and businessmen David and Andy Duong, were indicted Jan. 9 in what federal prosecutors have described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">an alleged “pay-to-play” scheme\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Duong, the head of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider, along with his son Andy, ran a company called Evolutionary Homes that aimed to sell converted shipping containers to Bay Area cities as housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. attorneys allege Thao agreed to take action as mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">to commit Oakland\u003c/a> to purchase units from the Duongs’ housing company in exchange for kickbacks and favors for Thao and Jones, including the funding of negative campaign mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral race. Thao also allegedly agreed to extend the Duongs’ recycling company contract with the city, and appoint senior city officials hand-picked by the Duongs and an unnamed co-conspirator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment laid out charges including conspiracy, bribery, honest services mail fraud and honest services wire fraud. 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Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Priedeman said federal prosecutors expect presenting their case in chief will take about three weeks, with the complete trial lasting no more than five weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is ongoing, Priedeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for defendants in the case said prosecutors had turned over an enormous amount of discovery in the case, including 2.5 terabytes of data and voluminous documents.[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg']Federal prosecutors said they had seized devices, including one phone and one laptop, from San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, who was recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061916/federal-prosecutors-charge-san-leandro-city-councilmember-with-fraud-lying-to-investigators\">charged in a related conspiracy\u003c/a> case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo, whose case appears to be closely related to that of Thao, Jones and the Duongs, allegedly agreed to use his power as an elected official to benefit a company in exchange for his own personal financial gain. 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"content": "\u003cp>A man who was charged with sending racist and threatening emails to Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> has struggled with mental health issues in the past, according to court records and his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Brooks Pokorny was arrested Oct. 7 in Southern California on suspicion of sending numerous emails with “extremely racist tones and threats to kill multiple different government officials,” including the mayor, according to a statement of probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny, 45, pleaded not guilty Oct. 10 to one felony count of threatening public officials or judges with a hate crime enhancement. An Alameda County judge set Pokorny’s bail at $70,000. As of Thursday, he remained in custody at the Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone on Wednesday, Pokorny’s father, Gary Pokorny, said his son hasn’t lived in the Bay Area for years and does not have a permanent address that he is aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he knew his son had been arrested but didn’t know why, and had been trying to reach him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Pokorny, a former city manager for El Cerrito and Walnut Creek, said he had no idea why his son would make threats against Lee but expressed sadness at his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blue door framed by a fence with a sign at the top saying "Alameda County Sheriff's Office"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1536x924.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intake, transfer and release area at the Santa Rita Jail, in Dublin, on Aug. 4, 2016. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has had some mental health issues in the past,” Gary Pokorny said. “That’s all I’ll say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public records show Pokorny’s parents asked for a court’s protection several times in 2014 and 2015 after they said their son had been violent or threatened them and was taken to a mental health facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2014, the Pokornys alleged, the father and son were involved in a physical altercation that left Gary Pokorny “severely bruised” and ended with David Pokorny getting into an ambulance to go to a crisis stabilization unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, in July, David threatened his mother after she did not immediately move a TV set for him, according to a statement included in a May 2015 request for a restraining order filed by Gary Pokorny.[aside postID=news_12055131 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg']According to the statement, David Pokorny threatened and physically assaulted his mother. He allegedly told police responding to a 911 call that day that he had considered suicide many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He talked at length about conspiracies to control thought, i.e., ‘My mind has been hijacked by the Russians.’ He wanted Gary to get a tape recorder to record him talking about all these things,” the document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny was restrained and hospitalized after the incident, according to his parents’ statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his parents filed another request for a restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply worried and anxious about David’s health. He must get help, or his [and our] future is bleak,” they wrote in a detailed description of an incident in which they returned from a trip to Europe and were unable to reach David, who was house-sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny eventually called his mother, telling his parents “to go back to Europe and die” and that he was tired of being pushed around for 35 years. He later arrived at his parents’ home and tried to spit on his father, they alleged, telling him to “kneel down in front of me and lick the bottom of my shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny’s parents wrote that they later discovered their son had sent them emails containing statements like, “Do not try to call me, visit me, or text me. I have fucking had it with you two,” and “You are a brutal, sick, twisted individual, and I do not like you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the May 2015 statement, his parents wrote that they told a police officer they had previously been granted temporary restraining orders but had not served them because they thought they could work things out and get David into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are asking for a temporary restraining order today and will serve it to make it permanent this time as his condition and his threatening behavior is worsening with time,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That month, a court barred David Pokorny from coming within 100 yards of his parents, their home or his father’s workplace. It expired in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Pokorny declined to comment on the restraining order in a phone call with KQED, saying that it was “in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny said his son previously worked in coding and was once an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He said he couldn’t recall the last time he had spoken to his son.[aside postID=news_12059022 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/258_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-1020x680.jpg']On Wednesday, David Pokorny appeared in a downtown Oakland courtroom alongside his public defender, wearing a red Alameda County Jail shirt and glasses. His greying beard appeared unkempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Pokorny could face up to six years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records describe threatening emails to Lee reminiscent of the violent language Pokorny’s parents said he used with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators first became aware of the recent threats against Lee and other government officials after a staff member in the mayor’s office discovered a large number of explicit threats from an unfamiliar Google account in the mayor’s inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first email, sent on Sept. 7, according to a declaration of probable cause for warrantless arrest filed in Alameda County, was rife with racist slurs, saying that Black people in Oakland “and the people that want to keep them alive are enemy combatants, and I have a legal right to kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should kill all of the government officials in Oakland and all of the police officers and judges in Oakland as well,” the email continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another email, sent to Lee on Sept. 21, read: “You are a psychopath, and I’m going to torture and murder you,” according to the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city staffer provided police with screenshots and a USB with a large number of other emails, including some with references to slavery and people in cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following Pokorny’s arrest, Lee said: “Violence has no place in our city or our democracy. Intimidation and hate will not silence Oakland public servants or the communities we represent. We will continue to do the people’s work — regardless of circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Wednesday, David Pokorny appeared in a downtown Oakland courtroom alongside his public defender, wearing a red Alameda County Jail shirt and glasses. His greying beard appeared unkempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Pokorny could face up to six years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records describe threatening emails to Lee reminiscent of the violent language Pokorny’s parents said he used with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators first became aware of the recent threats against Lee and other government officials after a staff member in the mayor’s office discovered a large number of explicit threats from an unfamiliar Google account in the mayor’s inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first email, sent on Sept. 7, according to a declaration of probable cause for warrantless arrest filed in Alameda County, was rife with racist slurs, saying that Black people in Oakland “and the people that want to keep them alive are enemy combatants, and I have a legal right to kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should kill all of the government officials in Oakland and all of the police officers and judges in Oakland as well,” the email continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another email, sent to Lee on Sept. 21, read: “You are a psychopath, and I’m going to torture and murder you,” according to the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city staffer provided police with screenshots and a USB with a large number of other emails, including some with references to slavery and people in cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following Pokorny’s arrest, Lee said: “Violence has no place in our city or our democracy. Intimidation and hate will not silence Oakland public servants or the communities we represent. We will continue to do the people’s work — regardless of circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was late 2023 when Frances Robustelli found herself in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> waterfront showroom of Evolutionary Homes. The company was converting shipping containers into housing for homeless people and attempting to sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-leandro\">San Leandro\u003c/a>’s city manager at the time, had been invited by two San Leandro city council members, Victor Aguilar and Bryan Azevedo, according to a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges the visit was part of an effort by members of the Duong family, who owned Evolutionary Homes, to lobby San Francisco Bay Area politicians to promote the establishment of tiny home developments in Bay Area cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli told Aguilar and Azevedo that the city had neither the funding nor the land for a tiny homes project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, the lawsuit claims, pitched an ordinance that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli filed the lawsuit in Alameda County in June, alleging that when she opposed the proposal, Azevedo and Aguilar voiced their unhappiness. Together with another council member, they would harass and intimidate her that year and the following, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has denied the allegations and, on July 28, filed a motion to have the complaint in the case thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The City will respond through the appropriate legal channels,” San Leandro Mayor Juan González said in a statement to KQED. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of pending litigation, I want to reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued service to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli declined to comment, citing the advice of her attorney. Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']Those questions only intensified after federal prosecutors notified the council member in May that he is the target of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the contents of Robustelli’s lawsuit, together with documents released by San Leandro in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, give clues as to what the FBI may have been looking for when they raided Azevedo’s home and shed light on where the ongoing investigation could be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 9 indictment charging Thao and the other three defendants describes an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a housing company that is widely believed to be Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges Thao promised Oakland would purchase housing units from the company, along with other favors, in exchange for payments to Jones and negative mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral election. All four defendants have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after FBI agents raided Thao’s home in June 2024, Azevedo defended himself from “rumors” tying him to the scandal in a \u003ca href=\"https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/0de/bc3/june-27--2024.pdf\">letter to the editor\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to set the record straight. I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out,” Azevedo wrote, adding that he had received and reported a $2,000 campaign contribution from Andy Duong in support of his unsuccessful 2022 mayoral run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in May notified Azevedo that he was the target of a federal investigation regarding criminal violations of federal laws, including conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and false statements in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are interested in resolving this matter short of an indictment, please have your attorney contact the undersigned,” U.S. attorneys told Azevedo in a May 12 letter. “If no contact is made with our office prior to May 30, 2025, the matter will proceed in the ordinary course of prosecution.”[aside postID=news_11993390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg']To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg']“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.[aside postID=news_12051947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1246387515-1020x680.jpg']In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. 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I didn’t know any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around seven months later, agents raided Azevedo’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails from that week, reviewed by KQED, show San Leandro city officials scrambling to nail down whether the city had ever done business with the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you please research the following business to see if the City has conducted business with them?” a city spokesperson wrote to the acting finance manager, adding: “Evolutionary Homes, LLC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of payments to the city, business licenses and financial records turned up nothing, according to the emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/bryan-azevedo-department-justice-targets-san-leandro-city-council-member-sheng-thao-corruption-investigation/16649211/\">interview\u003c/a> that was broadcast in June, Azevedo told ABC 7 that he had counted the days between when the FBI raided Thao’s home and when she was indicted. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, the lawsuit claims, pitched an ordinance that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli filed the lawsuit in Alameda County in June, alleging that when she opposed the proposal, Azevedo and Aguilar voiced their unhappiness. Together with another council member, they would harass and intimidate her that year and the following, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has denied the allegations and, on July 28, filed a motion to have the complaint in the case thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The City will respond through the appropriate legal channels,” San Leandro Mayor Juan González said in a statement to KQED. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of pending litigation, I want to reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued service to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli declined to comment, citing the advice of her attorney. Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those questions only intensified after federal prosecutors notified the council member in May that he is the target of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the contents of Robustelli’s lawsuit, together with documents released by San Leandro in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, give clues as to what the FBI may have been looking for when they raided Azevedo’s home and shed light on where the ongoing investigation could be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 9 indictment charging Thao and the other three defendants describes an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a housing company that is widely believed to be Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges Thao promised Oakland would purchase housing units from the company, along with other favors, in exchange for payments to Jones and negative mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral election. All four defendants have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after FBI agents raided Thao’s home in June 2024, Azevedo defended himself from “rumors” tying him to the scandal in a \u003ca href=\"https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/0de/bc3/june-27--2024.pdf\">letter to the editor\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to set the record straight. I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out,” Azevedo wrote, adding that he had received and reported a $2,000 campaign contribution from Andy Duong in support of his unsuccessful 2022 mayoral run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in May notified Azevedo that he was the target of a federal investigation regarding criminal violations of federal laws, including conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and false statements in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are interested in resolving this matter short of an indictment, please have your attorney contact the undersigned,” U.S. attorneys told Azevedo in a May 12 letter. “If no contact is made with our office prior to May 30, 2025, the matter will proceed in the ordinary course of prosecution.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. 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"content": "\u003cp>New Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, a progressive powerhouse and longtime former congresswoman, was sworn in Tuesday afternoon and once again promised to unify and revitalize the city after months of political and financial turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today marks a new era for Oakland,” Lee, 78, said during her inauguration speech in front of a crowd of residents gathered at City Hall to celebrate. “We are a city of doers, dreamers, entrepreneurs, artists and innovators. Together, we’re going to do the hard work to put Oakland back on the right track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who served in Congress for more than three decades, faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040023/barbara-lee-oaklands-next-mayor-is-ready-to-govern-in-a-new-way\">no shortage of challenges\u003c/a> in her new role. In addition to addressing Oakland’s projected $265 million shortfall in its next two-year budget cycle, the newly elected mayor will also need to tackle the city’s public safety issues, including stubbornly high rates of crime and homelessness, and insufficient housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s plan for her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036919/barbara-lee-pledges-to-unite-oakland-in-first-remarks-as-mayor-elect\">first 100 days in office\u003c/a>, which she introduced during her campaign, includes bringing together business leaders to develop new initiatives for Oakland’s economic growth, securing county funds to address homelessness, implementing new public safety strategies and prosecuting illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents “were clear about the need to transform Oakland into a safer and cleaner city,” Lee said. “Over the next 100 days, we will bring Oaklanders from all walks of life to help inform how our government can better serve the people and usher in a new era of prosperity and progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BARBARA-LEE-SWORN-IN-MD-04-KQED-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee is sworn in as mayor of Oakland as Bill Patterson holds a Bible that belonged to her grandfather at Oakland City Hall on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Handling Oakland’s finances will be no small feat, as city leaders attempt to piece together a budget that will bridge Oakland’s looming fiscal shortfall without jeopardizing essential city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Jenkins, who had served as interim mayor after Sheng Thao was ousted from office in a recall election, introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">new budget proposal\u003c/a> last week that includes several public safety service cuts, such as the continued closure of two fire stations and a cap on police overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the city’s fiscal crisis will require both short-term and long-term solutions, and added that she is working with financial advisors to review areas of concern in the city’s spending. She said she’s also been meeting with county, state and federal officials, as well as working groups made up of Oakland residents and business partners to identify new funding streams.[aside postID=news_12040023 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“My job is to lead our city out of a budget crisis and into a period of financial stability,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, who received strong support from labor unions throughout Oakland during her campaign, said she’s also been in talks with labor leaders. Everyone will need to make concessions so that the city can balance its budget, and labor groups will be a part of that, Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of public safety, Lee previously said she plans to increase the city’s police force to 700 sworn officers while also introducing new violence prevention and mental health programs. She also proposed several solutions for addressing homelessness, such as job training and financial assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is a big priority,” Lee told reporters after taking the oath of office. “The mayor’s job … is to keep the city safe and to help address crime rates and bring down crime rates so people are safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marks a new chapter for a city that’s been troubled by months of instability. 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Before representing Oakland in Congress, she also served in the California State Assembly for six years and the state Senate for two. She retired from Congress last year after an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s mayoral campaign garnered enthusiastic support from most of the City Council and Jenkins. She emphasized her track record of bringing federal funding to Oakland and promised to use her political connections and reputation to attract more investments into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the special election became unexpectedly tight when former Councilmember Loren Taylor, a moderate politician who appealed to voters frustrated by Oakland’s progressive tilt, took an early lead in the ballot counting process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> doesn’t need any reminders; she’s got a tough job ahead of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been working very hard,” she told KQED on Tuesday, a week before she is set to be sworn in as Oakland’s next mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hometown progressive hero, who represented the region for nearly three decades in Congress, takes the helm at a particularly fraught moment for this perennially underdog city, where crime has remained stubbornly high, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039972/oakland-schools-hostility-spirals-between-teachers-union-principals\">the school district is in disarray\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029645/oakland-clears-homeless-encampment-installs-shipping-container-barrier\">homelessness and encampments\u003c/a> have reached crisis levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to reset,” she said. “Right now, I’m looking at what needs to be added, what needs to be deleted, what needs to be restructured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, 78, said her transition team has been busy assembling working groups to help address the bevy of formidable challenges the city faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups will consist of “community members, nonprofit leaders, people who have the pulse of Oakland and what needs to be done in terms of our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036919/barbara-lee-pledges-to-unite-oakland-in-first-remarks-as-mayor-elect\">100-day plan,\u003c/a>” said Lee, who will replace interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins to finish out the final year and a half of recalled Mayor Sheng Thao’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These working groups are going to be essential to how we govern in a new way,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about her top priorities, Lee recited a laundry list of critical issues, including public safety, affordable housing, homelessness and encampments, and economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big agenda,” she acknowledged. “But it’s an agenda that everybody in the city can embrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she intends to restore the city’s depleted police force to 700 sworn officers and double down on violence prevention initiatives and mental health interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have many public safety issues that people are very aware of,” she said. “They’re not safe in many respects in many parts of the city, and we have to get this under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the city’s growing unhoused population, which \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Oakland%20PIT%202024%20Infographic.pdf\">numbered some 5,500 people\u003c/a> in last year’s point-in-time count, Lee offered a compassionate approach centered on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at how we can try to help people find jobs, training. Because the best predictor of people becoming sheltered is financial assistance,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a city street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tent encampment in West Oakland in 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homelessness situation in the city is “an issue of safety. It’s a humanitarian issue. It’s a moral disgrace,” she added. “And we have to do something, and we must do it quickly, at least begin to turn this around quickly. It’s going to take a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also spoke of reducing evictions and “preventing people from ending up on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking at how we can establish a revolving fund for first and last month’s rent for people who are living on the edge who may need to have their city help them,” she said. “They would pay it back when they got on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, though, where that money will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee will soon be engulfed in tough budget decisions, as the city’s leaders scramble to close the current shortfall while simultaneously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">trying to piece together\u003c/a> a new budget that aims to eliminate a projected $265 million deficit over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on the members of the City Council,” Lee said of that process. “I’m working with all of them, and we have to have consensus on what we would want to do. And so, at this point, we’re analyzing the full budget to make those determinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her campaign, which focused on a message of unity at a time of bitter political division in the city, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031370/oakland-voters-want-to-know-how-next-mayor-would-fix-citys-finances\">Lee emphasized her congressional track record\u003c/a> of bringing federal funding to Oakland, while also pledging to use her political connections to generate more investment for the city through public-private partnerships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a failed 2024 U.S. Senate bid, Lee\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020556/barbara-lee-launches-campaign-for-oakland-mayor-after-contentious-recall\"> threw her hat in the ring\u003c/a> for mayor in January, just weeks after ending her storied stint as one of the most consistently progressive voices in Congress.[aside postID=news_12038739 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by most of the City Council, the interim mayor and labor unions, Lee was considered the heavy favorite. But the race turned into an unexpectedly tight contest between her and former Councilmember Loren Taylor, who challenged Lee’s progressive approach to governance and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036611/oakland-mayoral-election-live-results\">gained support\u003c/a> from voters in the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">whiter and more affluent hillside communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, stepping into her partial first term as mayor, Lee has less than two years to tackle the prodigious set of goals she campaigned on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, she knew what she signed up for. And so far, it looks like she is putting in place a transition team and a staff that is going to be able to address those big, complex, thorny problems that have plagued Oakland for quite some time,” said Justin Berton, who was former Mayor Libby Schaaf’s communications director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly every mayor in the city’s modern history has formed a transition team, Berton added, with the notable exception of Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of her incoming staff worked with the [previous] administration to create that transition. So when her administration started, she literally just showed up on day one and started hiring the staff and started learning on the fly what the job entailed,” he said. “I think that followed her throughout her two years in office. People didn’t feel confident that her and her team were prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> will pay more than $200,000 and implement a series of election reforms to settle a lawsuit alleging that former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and several other candidates missed the filing deadline to be eligible to run in the 2022 mayoral election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted Tuesday afternoon to approve the settlement, more than two years after the Alameda County Taxpayers’ Association filed its lawsuit accusing the city of a litany of election-related blunders, violations and coverups stemming from the Oakland City Clerk’s office inadvertently giving mayoral candidates the wrong deadline to submit their candidacy applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon realizing the mistake, on the afternoon of the actual deadline, the office “frantically” called Thao and other candidates who had yet to submit their paperwork, instructing them to come to City Hall to file before the 5 p.m. cutoff, the suit alleges, leaving candidates “scrambling to gather signatures and organize their paperwork at the last minute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four candidates — Thao, Monesha Carter, Seneca Scott and Allyssa Victory — who showed up to the clerk’s office on the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2022, only Scott turned in his paperwork by the 5 p.m. deadline, the suit alleges, arguing that Thao and the two others should have been disqualified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, also claims that the clerk’s office had to manually operate its malfunctioning timestamp machine and incorrectly timestamped all of the paperwork to make it appear that it had been filed prior to 5 p.m., “when in fact, it had not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An overall lack of election integrity, lack of public accountability, and staggering government dysfunction are at the heart of this lawsuit,” the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao went on to win the election by just 677 votes, narrowly defeating then-Councilmember Loren Taylor. Just two years later, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014429/what-mayor-sheng-thaos-recall-means-for-oakland\">removed her from office\u003c/a> in an unprecedented recall. She now faces federal bribery charges after a grand jury in January \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022517/fbi-raids-home-san-leandro-council-member-joined-vietnam-trip-sheng-thao\">indicted her\u003c/a> — as well as her romantic partner and the father-son team overseeing the city’s recycling contractor — on several charges related to an alleged corruption scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Attorney Marleen Sacks, who led the suit for the tax foundation, initially demanded that the city redo the mayoral election, alleging that it had also flubbed the ranked choice voting process by only allowing voters to rank five candidates, despite having 10 names on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opposing campaigns for and against the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao rally at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacks also claimed city officials didn’t respond to her California Public Records Act requests in a timely manner, and accused them of violating state law by deleting surveillance footage that she said would have shown candidates entering and leaving City Hall on the day of the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Taxpayers Association, no stranger to legal challenges against Oakland and Alameda County, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/recent-legal-highlights-spring-2024/\">filed suit against the city\u003c/a> in 2022, challenging the validity of Measure Y, a parcel tax to help fund the city’s zoo, which voters approved that November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate suit, Sacks and the group sued the city over alleged illegal public contracting and violations of the state’s Public Records Act. The city settled in February, paying the group roughly $250,000 to cover legal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the City Council on Tuesday, during the same meeting, also approved a resolution to recognize “Municipal Clerks Week,” praising employees at Oakland City Clerk’s office.[aside postID=news_12038739 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00119.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council initially authorized the settlement during a closed-door session last month, in which it agreed to pay nearly $208,000 to reimburse attorney’s fees, “without admitting fault or wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, however, is silent on whether Thao or any other particular candidate should have been listed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement, city leaders agreed to a spate of election reforms, including no longer accepting late paperwork from candidates seeking office, providing accurate information about filing deadlines, retaining camera footage at the City Clerk’s office for at least a year and “making best efforts” to ensure timestamp machines at the clerk’s office are functioning accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also agreed “under certain circumstances” to request that the county registrar offer more than five ranked-choice options for city elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a satisfactory result. But there are still fundamental issues of accountability and transparency that continue to exist [in Oakland],” Sacks said after the vote. “It shouldn’t require a lawsuit for the city to investigate what led to these problems. But it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, also claims that the clerk’s office had to manually operate its malfunctioning timestamp machine and incorrectly timestamped all of the paperwork to make it appear that it had been filed prior to 5 p.m., “when in fact, it had not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An overall lack of election integrity, lack of public accountability, and staggering government dysfunction are at the heart of this lawsuit,” the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao went on to win the election by just 677 votes, narrowly defeating then-Councilmember Loren Taylor. Just two years later, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014429/what-mayor-sheng-thaos-recall-means-for-oakland\">removed her from office\u003c/a> in an unprecedented recall. She now faces federal bribery charges after a grand jury in January \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022517/fbi-raids-home-san-leandro-council-member-joined-vietnam-trip-sheng-thao\">indicted her\u003c/a> — as well as her romantic partner and the father-son team overseeing the city’s recycling contractor — on several charges related to an alleged corruption scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Attorney Marleen Sacks, who led the suit for the tax foundation, initially demanded that the city redo the mayoral election, alleging that it had also flubbed the ranked choice voting process by only allowing voters to rank five candidates, despite having 10 names on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opposing campaigns for and against the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao rally at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacks also claimed city officials didn’t respond to her California Public Records Act requests in a timely manner, and accused them of violating state law by deleting surveillance footage that she said would have shown candidates entering and leaving City Hall on the day of the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Taxpayers Association, no stranger to legal challenges against Oakland and Alameda County, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/recent-legal-highlights-spring-2024/\">filed suit against the city\u003c/a> in 2022, challenging the validity of Measure Y, a parcel tax to help fund the city’s zoo, which voters approved that November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate suit, Sacks and the group sued the city over alleged illegal public contracting and violations of the state’s Public Records Act. The city settled in February, paying the group roughly $250,000 to cover legal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the City Council on Tuesday, during the same meeting, also approved a resolution to recognize “Municipal Clerks Week,” praising employees at Oakland City Clerk’s office.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The geographic divide was stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> took Oakland’s flatlands while her opponent, former Oakland City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/loren-taylor\">Loren Taylor\u003c/a>, conquered the wealthier hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like he had in his failed bid for mayor two years ago, Taylor dominated in nearly all precincts located on even the slightest hint of a physical slope, in many of the whitest and less dense areas of Oakland, like the Upper Rockridge and Montclair neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that couldn’t compete with Lee’s steadfast backing in the flatlands — including lower-income neighborhoods in West Oakland and East Oakland — that helped the progressive stalwart eke out a win over her moderate opponent in the race to finish out the term of ousted former Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, whose term is set to begin in mid-May, will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036919/barbara-lee-pledges-to-unite-oakland-in-first-remarks-as-mayor-elect\">Oakland’s first Black woman mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee takes the stage at her election night party on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I saw an opportunity to unite our community,” she said Monday in her first press conference since winning the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race became an \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/barbara-lee-tight-oakland-mayors-race-00270119\">unexpectedly tight contest\u003c/a> between Lee and Taylor, who offered disparate visions of how to tackle the myriad financial and public safety challenges the city faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, 78, is a hometown hero who represented Oakland for nearly three decades, gaining national recognition as one of Congress’ most progressive voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by most of the City Council, the interim mayor and labor unions, Lee pledged during her campaign to rescue City Hall from its morass of bitterness and dysfunction, offering an array of progressive policies to address public safety, homelessness and Oakland’s budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although considered the heavy favorite when she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020556/barbara-lee-launches-campaign-for-oakland-mayor-after-contentious-recall\">entered the race in January\u003c/a>, just weeks after leaving Congress, Lee trailed Taylor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035332/polls-close-in-oakland-with-some-voters-conflicted-over-choice-for-mayor\">in early returns\u003c/a>. But she pulled ahead by some 5,000 votes in the latest ranked choice tally released Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036555/barbara-lee-takes-decisive-lead-over-loren-taylor-in-oakland-mayoral-election\">gaining a 53% to 47% lead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will govern with the same leadership I’ve engaged in my entire career: with transparency, integrity and accountability; with unwavering focus on the results you expect and deserve; with an ability to bring together people who do not always agree but believe in a better Oakland,” Lee said Monday in her first remarks as mayor-elect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor was largely backed by business and tech interests and had strong support from proponents of Thao’s recall campaign (which he supported and Lee opposed). He gained unexpected traction by casting himself as a tough-on-crime moderate from outside the political establishment who had the acumen to “fix” a “broken” city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Taylor was unable to win over Oakland’s vast flatlands, where progressive politics still dominate and unions continue to wield influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The flats really did align more with her ideological view of the world,” said John Whitehurst, a longtime political consultant in Oakland. “The flats of Oakland are some of the most progressive areas in America. 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