Mario Juarez is a longtime a political operative and two-time Oakland council candidate whose recent campaign dealings have drawn the attention of Alameda County prosecutors and the state’s politic…
OAKLAND — A longtime Oakland political operative was attacked in two separate incidents in May and June, including once at an address that was raided last week by the FBI as part of a sprawling probe that has ensnared Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
“These were definitely attempts to murder Mario,” Castillo said in an interview. He declined to speculate on the motive for the attacks, which were first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Prosecutors say Juarez commissioned the flyers from an Oakland direct mailing company by writing nearly $53,600 in checks that bounced, because he had less than $215 in this bank account at the time, court records show. He has since pleaded not guilty.
It all amounted to a “cruel injustice,” Johnson said, especially given how Juarez hounded the company for updates to ensure the estimated 120,000 flyers went out ahead of the election. Over and over, Johnson said, Juarez stressed “how important that was to go out, because it was going to have an effect on the mayor’s race,” and because “it was important for Sheng Thao to win, and to make changes to better Oakland.
“If we need to fight the case we will do everything to prove his innocence, including exposing the nasty state of politics in Oakland that are driving the charges against him,” Castillo said.
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