SF News Tuesday Morning What's Up: Sheng Thao Serves Final Day as Oakland Mayor It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
SF Politics Is This Why the FBI Raided Sheng Thao’s Home? Filings Allege High-Rollers Traded Campaign Donations for City Contracts A new set of filings allege that a recycling company and a security firm funneled nearly $300,000 to a Sheng Thao political operative in exchange for lucrative city contracts, and now that political operative may have flipped and could be cooperating with the feds.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Recalled, and So Is DA Pamela Price, as the Chronicle Is Calling Both Races With the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao leading by a massive percentage, and in the absence of anyone else making the call, the SF Chronicle is calling the race for the recall proponents. Same, too, for the recall of DA Pamela Price.
SF Politics Recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price Appear to Be Passing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao looks likely to be recalled based on preliminary election results, and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also looks to be getting recalled, by a wide margin.
SF News Man Who Claims Pamela Price Tried To Extort $25,000 Out of Him Produces Small Shreds of Evidence An Oakland businessman with a checkered past and connections to the Sheng Thao raid claimed this month that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. His attorney just produced some documents that kind of, sort of support his claim.
SF Politics Recall Sheng Thao Rally Devolves Into Chaos When Passerby Gets Called Out by Name, Tries to Grab Microphone There may not have been many people attending a Recall Sheng Thao rally on Tuesday in Oakland, but it’s making headlines anyway, as a businessman walking past was yelled at from onstage, confronted the speaker, and mayhem ensued.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Touts Drop In Oakland Crime and $2 Million Crime-Fighting Grant, as Recall Election Looms Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is trumpeting a 33% drop in crime and a new $2 million federal grant to the city's crime-fighting ceasefire strategy, but a couple major Bay Area newspapers just endorsed recalling her.
SF Politics Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Endorses Sheng Thao Recall, and Maybe Never Liked Thao That Much Anyway Previous Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf came out swinging in favor of recalling current mayor Sheng Thao on Friday, which may not be surprising, as Schaaf had always endorsed Thao’s rival Loren Taylor.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Insists She Was Not a Target of FBI Raid in Fiery Chronicle Interview Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
SF Politics Minor Figure in Sheng Thao FBI Raid Claims DA Pamela Price Tried to Shake Him Down for $25,000 Bribe Two of the East Bay’s strangest political stories just collided head-on, as a very colorful character from the FBI probe that led to the Sheng Thao raid now says that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. But oh, this fellow has credibility issues.
SF Politics AG Rob Bonta Finds Himself Possibly Dragged Into Whatever the Sheng Thao Raid Is All About New reporting on one possible suspect in the Sheng Thao FBI raid shows that state Attorney General Rob Bonta once steered $680,000 in state money to a failed energy startup run by that particular suspect who had an extremely checkered past.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Issues Executive Order to Ramp Up Oakland Encampment Sweeps Facing a recall election and a slew of scandals, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is seizing on a recent Supreme Court decision to proclaim that the city will get a lot more aggressive in clearing homeless encampments.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Will Skip Tie-Breaking Vote on City Contract to Business Associate of Possible FBI Probe Target Confronted with the very messy optics of steering millions of dollars to someone whose business partner may be a target of the very same FBI investigation that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may be a target of, Thao is choosing to merely duck the vote.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Reportedly Using an SUV the City Hasn't Paid For The City of Oakland has yet to make a single payment on the vehicle in the 16 months since acquiring it, according to reporting published earlier this week from The Oaklandside.
SF Politics Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Police Union (Predictably) Calls for Mayor Sheng Thao to Resign Idris Elba has canceled his DJ set at Outside Lands; longtime local political figure Jon Jacobo pleaded not guilty to sexual assault; and the latest calls for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to resign come from the city’s police union that has always hated her anyway.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Holds Town Hall Oakland's mayor and police chief held a town hall in an Oakland hills neighborhood; an 18-year-old was killed in a crash in Walnut Creek; and SF Marathon organizers are apologizing for a major error.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Boyfriend Also Had Phone Seized in FBI Raid, Questions Swirl About His Role in Her Administration We’re learning that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's boyfriend also had his phone seized amidst last month’s stunning FBI raids, and while that doesn’t mean he’s a target of the investigation, he sure seems to have some nebulous but powerful role in her office.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Romantic Partner Now Appears Ensnared In FBI Investigation, Too The Oakland City Attorney may have some insights into what’s being investigated after the FBI raid on the mayor’s home, and Sheng Thao’s partner has been named. Oh, and a karaoke club with alleged drug sales and human trafficking just entered the scandal.
SF Politics Alleged ‘Straw Donor’ in Sheng Thao Controversy Had His Home Shot At, and Was Allegedly Beaten Up A minor figure in the expanding political storm over the Sheng Thao FBI raid says he’s had some major harassment and violence directed at him, and shots were fired at his home just days before the raid.
SF Politics Scandal Believed to Be Behind FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Had 93 Alleged Illegal Donations — Some May Be to Recall Backers Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may have received donations through a campaign money laundering scheme that could be the root of last week’s FBI raid of her home. But of the 93 alleged illegal donations, some may have gone to top Recall Sheng Thao backers too.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Attorney Says He's No Longer Representing Oakland Mayor Attorney Tony Brass has fired Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao as a client, after she decided to make some combative public statements Monday; the 30-year-old KlaasKids Foundation is shutting down; and you may hear some thunder around the Bay tonight.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.
