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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Pati Navalta, who will be supporting Thao’s communications team as the office searches for a new press officer, Thao said that she decided to part with Brass and pursue new counsel over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with CBS Bay Area, though, Brass said he withdrew his counsel on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interview took place just hours after Thao’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">public statement\u003c/a> since the raid, during which she questioned the FBI search and vowed to remain in office, saying, “I am innocent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass told \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/oakland-mayor-sheng-thaos-former-013404747.html\">CBS\u003c/a> he did not know Thao would be holding the conference and that it made clear that the two did not see eye to eye on how to handle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He maintained his statement from last Friday that he did not believe Thao was the target of the raids, which took place at her home along with the offices of California Waste Solutions and two homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the family who owns and operates the company\u003c/a>, which acts as Oakland’s curbside recycling provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As City Council members prepare to meet on Tuesday in committees for the first time since the raids and last week’s shooting at Lake Merritt following a Juneteenth celebration, no members have come to the mayor’s defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Janani Ramachandran and Dan Kalb have said that they will continue to focus on their duties. Other council members declined to comment or did not respond to KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran, who succeeded Thao as representative of District 4 when Thao became mayor in 2022, said that Wednesday’s meeting, during which the council is expected to vote on the city’s midcycle budget, was her priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of things that are outside of my control as a council member, including what’s going on with the mayor right now, but what is very firmly within my control is deciding our budget. And this is, in fact, one of our fundamental responsibilities as a council member,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Krans contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She read from a statement and did not take questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao, who faces a recall election and mounting pressure from some community leaders to resign, had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991429/after-oakland-fbi-raids-and-juneteenth-shooting-where-is-mayor-sheng-thao\">silent\u003c/a> in the days since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Thursday morning’s FBI raids\u003c/a>, which came just hours after over a dozen people were shot following a Juneteenth celebration near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Monday that she will continue to lead Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is going to distract me from building on the progress that we have made in the last 18 months. I am going to focus on doing what I came here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao was already under scrutiny before the FBI raid. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">campaign to recall her\u003c/a> qualified for November’s ballot early last week as organizers blame the mayor for the city’s high crime, delay in hiring a police chief and disappointing departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raids targeted Thao’s home; the offices of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider; and two homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the family that owns and operates the company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities have not disclosed what they are investigating, but Thao is also among officials named in an investigation by local and state political watchdog agencies that allege Cal Waste used straw donors to illegally fund political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said that she would cooperate with the FBI, maintaining that she was confident that the investigation was not targeting her. During her statement, she raised questions about the timing of the raid and the recall effort against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know more about the handful of billionaires from San Francisco and from Piedmont who are hell-bent on running me out of office,” she said. “I want to know why the day following the qualification of a recall election, funded by some of the richest people in the Bay Area, seemed like the right day to execute a warrant?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao also asked what probable cause the FBI had to raid her home, saying authorities gave no notice or “the courtesy of a conversation.” Through tears, she said she felt confident that the situation would have unfolded differently if she had a different background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991714 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wipes a tear from her eye during a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know that for sure because former elected officials are sitting safely in their houses in the hills right now with campaign finance violations piling up, mountains of evidence that prove actual wrongdoing,” said Thao, whose parents fled Laos during the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their front doors remain intact, their reputations preserved, their innocence presumed until proven guilty. They will never face this indignity. This I know for sure because I was born poor in America, and that teaches you a lot about the world from day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said that her office would continue to focus on daily operations and the city’s recovery in the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sickened by these senseless acts of violence, and I want every Oaklander to know that we will work hard to ensure that those responsible are held accountable,” Thao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to all of those who are battling injuries, their families and our whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bishop Bob Jackson, the pastor of Acts Full Gospel Church on 66th Avenue in East Oakland, said he thought he was watching a movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, at least 15 people were shot near Oakland’s Lake Merritt after a Juneteenth celebration. The next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">federal agents raided\u003c/a> Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, throwing the embattled leader into further turmoil as she faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">upcoming recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI also searched the waterfront offices of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider, as well as two Oakland Hills homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the politically connected family\u003c/a> that owns and operates the company, which political watchdogs have accused of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Thao and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of terrible things [are] happening in Oakland right about now,” Jackson told KQED on Friday morning. “It’s so sad because Oakland, to me, is just a great place to live. It’s a wonderful place and just didn’t deserve all this negative press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the raids, Thao has remained silent — even on the Juneteenth shootings — causing political strategists, city residents and political opponents to raise speculation about her future in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are more than 24 hours since residents saw FBI agents moving boxes out of the mayor’s house, and she still hasn’t spoken,” said Justin Berton, a media strategist and the former director of communications for Mayor Libby Schaaf. “That suggests to me she’s not going to release a statement. Rather, she’s considering how to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted for comment on Friday afternoon, Anthony Brass, a San Francisco-based attorney representing Thao, said the mayor is willing to cooperate fully with federal investigators — and that she will continue to do her job. He said Thao will address the public next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has nothing to hide,” he said in a text message to KQED. “It’s unfortunate that she has had to endure the bad optics of having this search warrant executed on her home. She would have cooperated with this investigation without the need for this search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She will continue to do the work Oakland expects from their mayor and provide the federal government with whatever information they are seeking. We have no information that she is or will be the target of this or any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s problems were mounting before the FBI raid. Donations to her campaign, among others, came under investigation by state and local political watchdog agencies, which alleged Cal Waste was illegally funneling them. She had come under scrutiny in recent months over concerns about crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and the signatures collected by opponents seeking to recall her in a November election were verified on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recall was going to be a steep climb politically in the first place,” Berton said. “But if she’s facing a recall and carrying an FBI investigation on her back too, that just became Mt. Everest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Pelissero, the director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, told KQED that it would be hard for a public official like Thao to govern after an FBI raid because there would be a lack of public confidence in their ability to serve in the public interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And long before there’s even a trial, there’s the risk that the trust in the mayor and trust and in the city government of Oakland will be impacted,” he said. “From an ethical perspective, the appearance of serious charges pending because of the raid is going to undermine the ability of the mayor to carry out her duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for Thao’s resignation have come from the recall campaign, some community leaders and the Oakland branch of the NAACP, which said Thao “cannot focus on the needs of the residents of Oakland while she addresses the major challenges posed by the FBI raid and investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Harbin-Forte, a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge and president of Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not going to survive this recall,” Harbin-Forte said. “You can’t govern a city and be distracted by these investigations that are going on. It’s going to be a distraction, and we need someone who can give Oakland [their] full-time attention. We’re hoping that she will consider resigning and not delay the inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she were to do that, she would send the message that she can put Oaklanders first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who also believes Thao should resign, said the mayor’s absence is concerning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the mayor? Is she even around?” Jackson said. “No one seems to have heard from her, and she hasn’t made a sound about anything that’s been going on. … It feels kind of bad that we really don’t have the leadership in the city of Oakland that we really need and desperately need at these trying times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unclear whether Thao has done any official city business since the raids, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland said in a statement on Friday that City Administrator Jestin Johnson is responsible for day-to-day administrative and fiscal operations to carry out the mayor’s policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was appointed by Thao in May 2023, noted in an email sent Thursday to city workers that Oakland has had challenging moments since he began working for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, like every day, our community needs, and rightfully expects, the high-quality public services we provide,” Johnson wrote. “Through every challenge we face together, we demonstrate our dedication to that service. All City services are being provided, and the mission continues. I know that our community can continue to expect our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Thursday, Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas expressed sympathy for the victims and their families after the shooting following Wednesday’s Juneteenth celebration, which gave way to a raucous sideshow where fights broke out before gunfire sent partygoers running for cover. She said her focus was on ensuring Oakland’s government continues to serve residents without interruption, a point echoed by other officials and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loren Taylor, former City Council member and founder of Empower Oakland, an organization focused on neutralizing the impact of wealthy special interest groups in the city’s politics, expressed frustration that Oakland hasn’t been able to solve public safety issues and now faces a potential public corruption case, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then to compound that with the other news that is crowding out everything, which is the raid on the mayor’s house and other places across the city, that throws even more confusion, doubt and skepticism on Oakland,” said Taylor, who lost the 2022 Oakland mayor’s race to Thao by \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Oakland,_California_(2022)\">677 votes\u003c/a>. “I know that the entire city is feeling it. 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He said Thao will address the public next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has nothing to hide,” he said in a text message to KQED. “It’s unfortunate that she has had to endure the bad optics of having this search warrant executed on her home. She would have cooperated with this investigation without the need for this search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She will continue to do the work Oakland expects from their mayor and provide the federal government with whatever information they are seeking. We have no information that she is or will be the target of this or any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s problems were mounting before the FBI raid. Donations to her campaign, among others, came under investigation by state and local political watchdog agencies, which alleged Cal Waste was illegally funneling them. She had come under scrutiny in recent months over concerns about crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and the signatures collected by opponents seeking to recall her in a November election were verified on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recall was going to be a steep climb politically in the first place,” Berton said. “But if she’s facing a recall and carrying an FBI investigation on her back too, that just became Mt. 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Is she even around?” Jackson said. “No one seems to have heard from her, and she hasn’t made a sound about anything that’s been going on. … It feels kind of bad that we really don’t have the leadership in the city of Oakland that we really need and desperately need at these trying times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unclear whether Thao has done any official city business since the raids, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland said in a statement on Friday that City Administrator Jestin Johnson is responsible for day-to-day administrative and fiscal operations to carry out the mayor’s policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was appointed by Thao in May 2023, noted in an email sent Thursday to city workers that Oakland has had challenging moments since he began working for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, like every day, our community needs, and rightfully expects, the high-quality public services we provide,” Johnson wrote. “Through every challenge we face together, we demonstrate our dedication to that service. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI raid of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s\u003c/a> home on Thursday morning coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">searches at three other properties\u003c/a> around the city — all of them linked to one powerful, politically connected family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for their recycling company, which serves as the city’s exclusive zero waste contractor, the Duong family is also heavily involved in Oakland’s business and political realms, with deep ties to Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waterfront offices of their company, California Waste Solutions, were raided along with the homes of CEO David Duong and his son Andy. Although the FBI has not disclosed what it is investigating, such search warrants require law enforcement agents to show they have probable cause to believe there is evidence of a federal crime at the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the family and its company have faced allegations of ethics violations in the past, drawing the attention of political watchdogs for their close relationships with political figures and accusations that they funneled tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors to political campaigns, including Thao’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know about the Duongs and their company so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Duongs arrived in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to David, he and 15 family members came to San Francisco after fleeing the Vietnam War by small boat, spending two years in a refugee camp in the Philippines before eventually landing in the city in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told KQED in 2017 that when they first arrived, he and his siblings would take walks around the Financial District, sorting recyclables out of people’s trash waiting to be collected on city streets — the start of the family business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few years, the family saved enough to buy a small recycling plant in West Oakland, and in 1992, they started Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the continuing leadership of David and his siblings Kristina and Victor, who are also the majority stockholders of the company, Cal Waste has grown to the largest waste management company in Northern California, according to its website, with multiple plants and over 300 employees in Oakland and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, the company has had the “exclusive right to provide Oakland residents residential recycling collection services,” according to a City Council ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Duongs have become powerful political players in Oakland. They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. It also claims the city is discriminating against Cal Waste because it is an immigrant-owned business and treating it differently than other non-minority waste contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has refuted the claims, contending it has done extensive work to support Cal Waste and educate residents on proper trash and recycling disposal. It also has increased the company’s annual compensation and offered financial incentives worth millions, but Cal Waste’s “historically deficient performance” has continued, the city said in a recent court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC’s probe into Andy Duong and Cal Waste also includes several donations made to campaign committees in San José, including two funding City Council incumbent Tam Nguyen and Santa Clara County supervisor candidate Don Rocha in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, is a former San José City Councilmember. He told KQED he was not aware of a laundering scheme by the Duongs to donate to his campaign for supervisor in 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was never conveyed to me or discussed with me or presented to me,” Rocha said. “I would not have accepted those checks.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said he knows Victor Duong through his work in the public sector.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve worked at (San José) city hall on and off for 30 years. Anybody who has worked that long is going to run into him, especially if you work in city government,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said the FPPC previously asked him for a list of who donated to his campaign for supervisor and inquired about some of them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And that was where it ended,” Rocha said, noting he hasn’t heard from the FPPC since.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nguyen declined to comment when reached.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing political donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the open FPPC investigation, the family is still very much involved with political campaigns. This year, David Duong has donated more than $41,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $9,100 to the Democratic Party of Virginia. In total, his contributions to state and federal campaign committees are more than $100,000 since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong has also contributed to multiple election campaign committees this year, racking up over $7,000 in donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED emailed Steven Churchwell, an attorney who received an FPPC warning \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/enf_letter/2023/09-15-23/Duong-Family-Investments-202000403.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of David Duong for violating campaign finance rules, to ask about the violations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California Waste Solutions is aware that federal agents executed search warrants at a number of locations in Oakland yesterday related to CWS,” he said in response. “The company is fully cooperating with the government’s investigation and is confident that the government will conclude that the company and its owners were not involved in any unlawful or improper activity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joseph Geha contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> An earlier version referred incorrectly to a pending FPPC lawsuit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI raid of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s\u003c/a> home on Thursday morning coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">searches at three other properties\u003c/a> around the city — all of them linked to one powerful, politically connected family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for their recycling company, which serves as the city’s exclusive zero waste contractor, the Duong family is also heavily involved in Oakland’s business and political realms, with deep ties to Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waterfront offices of their company, California Waste Solutions, were raided along with the homes of CEO David Duong and his son Andy. Although the FBI has not disclosed what it is investigating, such search warrants require law enforcement agents to show they have probable cause to believe there is evidence of a federal crime at the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the family and its company have faced allegations of ethics violations in the past, drawing the attention of political watchdogs for their close relationships with political figures and accusations that they funneled tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors to political campaigns, including Thao’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know about the Duongs and their company so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Duongs arrived in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to David, he and 15 family members came to San Francisco after fleeing the Vietnam War by small boat, spending two years in a refugee camp in the Philippines before eventually landing in the city in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told KQED in 2017 that when they first arrived, he and his siblings would take walks around the Financial District, sorting recyclables out of people’s trash waiting to be collected on city streets — the start of the family business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few years, the family saved enough to buy a small recycling plant in West Oakland, and in 1992, they started Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the continuing leadership of David and his siblings Kristina and Victor, who are also the majority stockholders of the company, Cal Waste has grown to the largest waste management company in Northern California, according to its website, with multiple plants and over 300 employees in Oakland and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, the company has had the “exclusive right to provide Oakland residents residential recycling collection services,” according to a City Council ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Duongs have become powerful political players in Oakland. They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. It also claims the city is discriminating against Cal Waste because it is an immigrant-owned business and treating it differently than other non-minority waste contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has refuted the claims, contending it has done extensive work to support Cal Waste and educate residents on proper trash and recycling disposal. It also has increased the company’s annual compensation and offered financial incentives worth millions, but Cal Waste’s “historically deficient performance” has continued, the city said in a recent court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC’s probe into Andy Duong and Cal Waste also includes several donations made to campaign committees in San José, including two funding City Council incumbent Tam Nguyen and Santa Clara County supervisor candidate Don Rocha in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, is a former San José City Councilmember. He told KQED he was not aware of a laundering scheme by the Duongs to donate to his campaign for supervisor in 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was never conveyed to me or discussed with me or presented to me,” Rocha said. “I would not have accepted those checks.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said he knows Victor Duong through his work in the public sector.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve worked at (San José) city hall on and off for 30 years. Anybody who has worked that long is going to run into him, especially if you work in city government,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said the FPPC previously asked him for a list of who donated to his campaign for supervisor and inquired about some of them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And that was where it ended,” Rocha said, noting he hasn’t heard from the FPPC since.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nguyen declined to comment when reached.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing political donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the open FPPC investigation, the family is still very much involved with political campaigns. This year, David Duong has donated more than $41,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $9,100 to the Democratic Party of Virginia. In total, his contributions to state and federal campaign committees are more than $100,000 since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong has also contributed to multiple election campaign committees this year, racking up over $7,000 in donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED emailed Steven Churchwell, an attorney who received an FPPC warning \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/enf_letter/2023/09-15-23/Duong-Family-Investments-202000403.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of David Duong for violating campaign finance rules, to ask about the violations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California Waste Solutions is aware that federal agents executed search warrants at a number of locations in Oakland yesterday related to CWS,” he said in response. “The company is fully cooperating with the government’s investigation and is confident that the government will conclude that the company and its owners were not involved in any unlawful or improper activity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joseph Geha contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> An earlier version referred incorrectly to a pending FPPC lawsuit. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, June 21, 2024:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">FBI agents \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">raided Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao‘s home\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday morning. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The raid of Thao’s home was just one of a number conducted in Oakland by the FBI. The agency wouldn’t release details of the searches, just saying that agents conducted a court-authorized law enforcement action.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously voted against a proposal by AT&T to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/06/landline-phone-service-preserved-california/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">end landline service\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in much of California. Critics of the proposal argued the move might have left many older people and residents in remote rural areas vulnerable in the event of a natural disaster. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School districts in California are under pressure to reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990691/california-school-district-finds-a-way-to-bring-absent-kids-back-to-class\">chronic absenteeism\u003c/a>. But getting kids back to the classroom can be a challenge for districts with limited resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Baseball fans are saying bye to the “Say Hey Kid” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991060/willie-mays-dies-at-93\">Willie Mays\u003c/a>. Thursday night’s San Francisco Giants game was held at the historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham Alabama. It’s the former home of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, the team which Mays made his professional debut with in 1948. And fans were also able to take in the game back in San Francisco at Oracle Park.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">\u003cb>FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal agents raided \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s home on Thursday morning, throwing the embattled leader into further turmoil as she faces an upcoming \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recall election\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FBI conducted “court-authorized law enforcement activity” in an area of Maiden Lane where the mayor lives, a representative for the agency said in a statement, but would not provide more details.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neighbors heard FBI agents arrive around 6 a.m. and knock loudly on the door of the home, they told a KQED reporter at the scene.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly after 10 a.m., about two dozen agents carried multiple boxes out of the home, put the boxes in cars and left. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the campaign to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao celebrated submitting signatures to put a recall on the ballot, the Oakland agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws is investigating how the campaign handles donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, or OUST, submitted 41,530 signatures to the city clerk on Wednesday. Election officials will now review the signatures to verify at least 24,644 — the number required to qualify for an election — match registered Oakland voters. It’s unclear if the recall will qualify and, if so, when an election would be scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUST blames Thao for several issues, including the loss of the Oakland A’s, the city \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/07/audit-oakland-police-retail-theft-prevention-grant-sheng-thao/\">missing out on a major grant to combat retail theft\u003c/a> and the delay in hiring a police chief. There’s also lingering resentment from Thao’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961636/report-recommends-oakland-mayor-consider-reinstating-former-police-chief-leronne-armstrong\">fire former police chief LeRonne Armstrong\u003c/a> in February 2023. After a yearlong search, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980455/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-appoints-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief\">Floyd Mitchell was hired in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I fight to create a better, safer Oakland,” Thao said in a statement. “Regardless of the naysayers or negativity, I will continue that fight because the progress we are making makes it all worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not be distracted by the politics of out-of-town billionaires or special interests, and I will continue to work every day for Oakland’s interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Oakland’s Public Ethics Commission opened an investigation into OUST. 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The Commission originally presented Thao with a group of three other candidates — including the fired Armstrong — that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-mayor-rejects-police-chief-candidates-18576741.php\">rejected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the second group of candidates, two finalists, including Mitchell, sat for long one-on-one interviews with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more Oakland police coverage\" tag=\"oakland-police-department\"]Thao said Mitchell’s track record on crime reduction in Texas “vaulted him to the top of the list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell will take over the department between late April and early May, the mayor’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Mitchell began his policing career in Kansas City, Missouri, where he served as an officer for 25 years. He later became police chief of the city of Temple, Texas. In 2019, he took the top post in Lubbock, heading the city’s police department until he resigned in September 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by the mayor’s office, Lubbock, which has a population of 260,000, saw overall crime decrease by about 5% in 2020 and 2021 before rising by about 7%. In the smaller town of Temple, the office said, crime fell each year he was chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to work to get up to speed as quickly as I possibly can with each individual bureau of operation and their responsibility, so I can help them move forward,” Mitchell said at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977871/oakland-police-commission-survey-seeks-resident-input-on-opd-chief-candidates-after-public-forum\">recent community meeting with the four police chief candidates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s vitally important to get feedback from the officers that have boots on the ground and determine from them where we excel and where we can do better work to address crime and quality of life issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell comes to the department just over a year after Thao fired former Chief Armstrong following allegations that, under his watch, the department had failed to properly investigate two misconduct charges against a sergeant who was accused of a hit-and-run and of discharging a firearm in an elevator at police department headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong has since appealed his termination and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974985/former-oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-sues-city-for-wrongful-termination\">filed a lawsuit against Thao and the city of Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is the most important issue in Oakland. 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And to be quite honest, I was pretty impressed with his response,” Thao told KQED. “He didn’t make any excuses about the situation, but instead he really talked about what he learned from the experience and how he can bring that to the city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will also step into the office as Oakland faces an \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/folder/126124687343\">uptick in violent crime\u003c/a>, along with intensified calls from the public for stronger safety measures. 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