OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – A brand new court docket submitting from the workplace of former Alameda County District Lawyer Pamela Value’s workplace sheds new gentle on a potential connection between outgoing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and California Waste Options. The enterprise and Thao’s residence have been each raided by the FBI again in June.
Particulars concerning the causes for the raid stay sealed, however the brand new court docket submitting makes a number of allegations suggesting the house owners of California Waste Options funded detrimental marketing campaign flyers in opposition to Thao’s opponents within the 2022 election to get Thao elected and profit their enterprise.
Luigi Mangione beforehand reported lacking in San Francisco: experiences
Monday’s court docket submitting stems from a felony grievance filed by Value again in January in opposition to Mario Juarez alleging he handed dangerous checks. The DA alleges Juarez didn’t pay a advertising firm for printing and sending detrimental political mailers in opposition to 2022 mayoral candidates Loren Taylor and Ignacio de la Fuente.
In a court docket submitting Monday, the DA’s workplace says in October of 2022, Juarez’s checking account “received a $75,000 check from California Waste Solutions.” Then, Juarez “proceeds to create and send the mailers to help Sheng Thao get elected to the Oakland mayor’s office.”
The submitting goes on to say that after the November 2022 election Juarez “received an additional $170,000 total from ABC Security, the Duong family, and California Waste Solutions… These companies have valuable contracts with the City of Oakland and an interest in the election of then-candidate for mayor, Sheng Thao… Juarez was essentially a conduit for these companies to help the mayor win and preserve and enhance the companies’ access to taxpayer-funded contracts.”
The court docket paperwork additionally point out Juarez despatched two checks totaling $7,500 to Thao’s boyfriend, Andre Jones, however it doesn’t recommend what these funds are for.
