David Duong, one of the Oakland businessmen indicted for allegedly bribing former Mayor Sheng Thao, is accusing federal agents of building their case against him on the word of a witness with a “decades-long history of fraud.”
In a court filing late last week, Duong’s attorneys also accused the FBI of withholding key information from the judge who signed off on a search warrant of Duong’s house last year. The motion was first reported on by KQED.
In June 2024, federal agents raided the home of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her partner Andre Jones, and the homes of David and Andy Duong, the owners of California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling company. Earlier this year, federal prosecutors unsealed indictments against all four, accusing them of orchestrating an elaborate bribery scheme…