Her comments came four days after the FBI seized several items from her Oakland Hills home.
Oakland mayor Sheng Thao becomes emotional while speaking to the media during a press conference at Oakland City Hall in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, June 24, 2024. This was the mayor’s first public appearance since her home was raided by the FBI two days ago.
While Thao maintained the FBI’s investigation is “not about me,” she also insinuated that the feds’ interest in her could be linked to broader political forces seeking to remove her from office. She wondered aloud why the raids happened so soon after the recall question qualified for the November ballot. The timing, she said, was “troubling.”
“I only became aware of it when I saw it on the news,” Brass said of Thao’s address. He declined to elaborate further on which parts of her statements he disagreed with. Also targeted in the raids were two other houses in the Oakland Hills and a business office along the city’s waterfront Thursday morning. All three are, who owns the Oakland-based company California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling provider. CWS also has a contract with the city of San Jose.
On Monday, Thao said city operations have continued “without interruption” since the raids, adding that she would “remain focused on supporting the City Council” as they work to pass the budget. She also stressed the city would still completeon Wednesday night, noting that the unannounced raids Thursday morning had pre-empted the kind of announcement that might have been expected by the city’s mayor after such a shocking event.
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