Raided in Oakland
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I know this wasn't about the recall, but it has to do with Jon Stewart's recent dunk on "fake conservative talking points about high crime":
The raids come two days after the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announced there were enough signatures on a petition to recall Thao from office to move the process forward.
Supporters of a recall blame the mayor for not doing enough to fight crime which has led many businesses to close down in the city. They also blame Thao for the city's failure to apply for millions of dollars in state money to fight retail crime.
I guess people who live in Oakland don't much care about the FBI statistics.
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The mayor finally had a press conference. She complains this is politically motivated, and that if she were rich or went to an ivy league school, none of this would have happened. I guess we'll all have to somehow get straight in our own heads, whether politically motivated prosecutions for crimes that actually happened, but which would have been ignored by prosecutors absent political motivation, are ok. I'm pretty sure they're not ok, but people differ. Not that I believe her about this being a politically motivated investigation of a meaningless, victimless crime.
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@Mik said in Raided in Oakland:
I still haven't heard what they were looking for.
There was a simultaneous raid on the home of the owner of a trash company that contracts with the city. That trash company owner seems like a prototypical pay to play government contractor, which makes it ironic that the mayor whined about not being rich and how this wouldn't have happened to her if she were. If there's an indictment forthcoming, it'll be because she got into bed with this wealthy business interest.
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@jon-nyc said in Raided in Oakland:
Just-us
This is clearly a False Flag operation intended to distract us from the fact that the FBI is being run by Communists.
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@jon-nyc said in Raided in Oakland:
Just-us
This is clearly a False Flag operation intended to distract us from the fact that the FBI is being run by Communists.
Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale no less.
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If this was a Republican White Guy, this would have occurred over an unpaid parking ticket. For this to occur to a female Hmong, we must be talking about something extremely serious…
Did she maybe drive over a Pride intersection and leak oil?
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A federal grand jury has indicted Oakland’s recalled Mayor Sheng Thao, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the Bay Area News Group — a stunning development in a federal public corruption inquiry that touched the highest levels of East Bay’s political class.
The indictment caps a monthslong federal grand jury inquiry that shook the region’s political circles just months ahead of a recall election targeting the first-term mayor. Thao was booted from office by more than 60% of voters in November.
Reached early Thursday afternoon, Thao’s attorney, Jeff Tsai, said he and his client had not been contacted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and they were unaware of any movement in the federal investigation.
The development comes just a day after FBI agents raided the home of another East Bay politician, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, who, along with Thao, was among several officials who visited Vietnam as part of a trade delegation two years ago.
The original inquiry burst into public view June 20 when agents with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service raided four addresses across the city, including Thao’s home in the Oakland Hills that she shared with her partner, former City Hall council aide Andre Jones. Also raided were the homes and waterfront business offices of David and Andy Duong, the father-son duo who own and operate the city’s recycling contractor, California Waste Solutions.
