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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about six hours of cross-examination on Friday in the federal trial of the former Oakland mayor and three co-defendants.
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Mario Juarez, the government’s central witness, takes the stand in Sheng Thao’s corruption trial
The Oakland political operative testified that the former mayor sought $300,000 in exchange for city help for a housing venture he formed with the Duong family, an account the four defendants, who have pleaded not guilty,…
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A flaw in the code behind most websites sends governments and companies scrambling to patch
Federal agencies told organizations to update PHP immediately or take sites offline, a warning that reaches from state and city portals to the San Francisco companies that run much of the web’s publishing infrastructure.
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Sheng Thao’s bribery trial opens in Oakland with a fight over the government’s star witness
In the first week of the federal case against Oakland’s former mayor, prosecutors described a pay-to-play scheme, defense lawyers attacked the government’s cooperating witness and Ms. Thao’s former chief of staff took the stand.
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Suspicious letters reach Bay Area congressional offices as federal inquiry widens
Lofgren’s San Jose office was cordoned off and Panetta’s Santa Cruz staff found powder in an envelope, part of a nationwide wave of mailings to lawmakers and election offices less than three weeks before Election Day.