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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. […]