Sheng Thao’s chief of staff, indicated the mayor wanted to use $50,000 from her office budget to make good on her campaign debt, according to a text message.

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was in court on Thursday in a federal bribery case against her. Thao was charged with bribery ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her lawyer Jeff Tsai leave ...

Need a refresher on the Sheng Thao and East Bay federal corruption probes? Look here Months after federal indictments, Oakland land deal for new recycling plant in limbo Oakland mayoral race: ...

The payment had been part of former Mayor Sheng Thao’s plan to expedite the massive land sale so that the revenue could help ...

He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015. Another Oakland City Hall shake-up is underway involving staff with ties to former Mayor Sheng Thao. Oakland Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins announced ...

OAKLAND — The former chief of staff to ex-Mayor Sheng Thao has been fired over a reference to Black people that she wrote down during a meeting last year in which Thao’s supporters organized ...

A high-ranking city official in Oakland, California ... that prompted the indictment of the city’s previous mayor, Sheng Thao, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Hanson was hired by Thao ...

(KGO) -- Interim Oakland Mayor Kevin Jenkins announced Monday he will be firing most of his staff that were hired under previous Mayor Sheng Thao. Jenkins says that the staff will be released on ...

OAKLAND — Federal prosecutors are continuing to gather evidence in the corruption case involving former Mayor Sheng Thao and ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Nearly six months after Sheng Thao took office as mayor of Oakland, she still owed tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign manager who had helped deliver her a victory.