{"id":176408,"date":"2026-02-13T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:39:22","slug":"ex-san-leandro-councilman-pleads-guilty-to-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176408\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-San Leandro councilman pleads guilty to corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bryan-azevedo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">San Leandro City Councilman Bryan Azevedo. Photo: San Leandro <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">SAN LEANDRO, Calif. &#8211; Former San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo pleaded guilty Wednesday in Oakland federal court to corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Azevedo was accused of accepting a $2,000 bribe in an effort to sway the city to purchase modular housing from two unnamed co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The housing company was not identified in court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">One expert said the case mirrors the federal case against two members of the Duong family, who co-founded a housing company called Evolutionary Homes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">As part of the plea agreement, Azevedo is expected to cooperate with prosecutors. He announced his retirement on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/san-leandro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Leandro<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article San Leandro City Councilman Bryan Azevedo. Photo: San Leandro SAN LEANDRO, Calif. &#8211; Former San Leandro City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1530,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-176408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-san-leandro","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}