Former Mayor Sheng Thao and two other people indicted on federal bribery charges earlier this year seek to suppress evidence seized in headline-making FBI raids last year, accusing the agency of ignoring a key informant’s “lifelong history of criminal arrests, fraud and deceit.”
Motions filed last week by Thao, her romantic partner Andre Jones, and businessman Andy Duong join a filing by Andy’s father and business partner David Duong in October and make additional arguments.
All four people were indicted in January for allegedly concocting a bribery scheme in which the Duongs — who run Oakland’s curbside recycling company, California Waste Solutions — would help Thao get elected and pay Jones a bribe in exchange for lucrative contracts from the Thao administration…