This is a crazy story and it’s not completely clear what is happening here but it looks as if someone might have attempted to murder a key witness in an FBI corruption investigation in Oakland.
Last June the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. At the time it wasn’t clearly why or whether Thao was even a target of the investigation. Thao was defiant and claimed she would be cleared once the investigation was complete, but that’s not what happened.
Mayor Thao was recalled by the voters in November and then in January of this year she was indicted for corruption along with her longtime partner and two men who held contracts for recycling with the city.
According to the indictment filed Jan. 9, 2025, in the weeks leading up to the City of Oakland mayoral election in November 2022 and following her election as mayor, Thao promised to take official…
