Sheng Thao won’t ask to move criminal case out of Oakland

The Brief

  • Lawyers for former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao told a federal judge that they won’t be asking to move her criminal bribery case out of Oakland.
  • Thao’s lawyer is also asking to suppress all ‘fruits’ of the FBI search of her home in 2024.
  • A trial date has been set for Oct. 16, 2026.

OAKLAND, Calif. Lawyers for former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao told a federal judge that they won’t be asking to move her criminal bribery case out of Oakland, something they had brought up as a possibility at a prior court hearing.

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Attorney Jeffrey Tsai filed a notice last week in U.S. District Court in Northern California, notifying Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers that Thao, her partner Andre Jones and father-and-son duo who run California Waste Solutions, David and Andy Duong, will not be moving for a transfer of venue.

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