{"id":494782,"date":"2026-10-13T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494782\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:58:10","slug":"jury-selection-begins-in-corruption-trial-of-former-oakland-mayor-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494782\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins in corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection begins Tuesday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/sensitive-court-filings-released-former-oakland-mayor-case\/4138237\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thao is expected to be in court as jury selection gets underway. If convicted on all charges, she could be sentenced to 95 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have indicted Thao on charges of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud, along with her longtime boyfriend Andre Jones and David and Andy Duong.<\/p>\n<p>The Duongs own California Waste Solutions, Oakland&#8217;s recycling contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors allege Thao helped the company secure future contracts with the city of Oakland in exchange for helping her get elected mayor and payments to her longtime boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Thao and her co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Recently released phone recordings include one from 2019 indicating Thao discussed concerns that the recycling company overcharged the city.<\/p>\n<p>Court records also include a transcript from a 2024 phone call between Andy Duong and an unnamed Oakland city councilmember.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the conversation, Duong invites the councilmember to &#8220;party up in the yacht&#8221; and, in the future, &#8220;a private [yacht] for us only,&#8221; according to the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>When the councilmember asks about the recall effort against then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, Duong says, &#8220;We put a stop to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thao was eventually recalled later that year.<\/p>\n<p>Testimony is expected to begin as soon as next Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins Tuesday in the corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. Thao is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[143,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-494782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-oakland","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494782","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=494782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}