Jakob Rodgers
Covering breaking news for @mercnews & @eastbaytimes. Formerly of @csgazette & @GreeleyTribune. DMs open. Message for Signal.
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22 hours ago |
mercurynews.com | Jakob Rodgers |Shomik Mukherjee |Nate Gartrell
ANTIOCH — The Bay Area’s latest public corruption scandal, revealed by prosecutors this week, involved two prominent homebuilders, an Antioch city councilperson whose vote they allegedly tried to buy and a political fixer apparently working for both sides. They are not named in the indictment, but all indications suggest the councilmember who went to the FBI was Mike Barbanica and the political consultant was Mary Jo Rossi, whose home was raided by the FBI last month.
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1 day ago |
fresnobee.com | Nate Gartrell |Jakob Rodgers |Shomik Mukherjee
OAKLAND — How much does it take to buy an Antioch city councilmember? According to the FBI, the owner and vice president of the DeNova Homes development company estimated that it would take around $15,000. Prosectors allege they offered up the cash in discreetly hidden stacks of $100 bills, but say that David Sanson and his son, Trent Sanson, badly underestimated who they were dealing with. Now, they’ve become the latest father-and-son duo to be charged with corruption in the Bay Area.
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1 day ago |
sacbee.com | Nate Gartrell |Jakob Rodgers |Shomik Mukherjee
OAKLAND - In an indictment announced Tuesday, federal prosecutors say the former owner and vice president of a Contra Costa homebuilding company estimated how much it would take to buy an Antioch city councilmember’s vote - about $10,000. But after they allegedly offered the cash in discreetly hidden stacks of bills, prosecutors say David Sanson and his son, Trent Sanson, underestimated the councilmember whom they expected to bribe. The politician had already gone to the FBI, authorities say.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee |Jakob Rodgers
OAKLAND — Loren Taylor and Barbara Lee are locked in a tight race to be the next mayor of Oakland, a special election that has politically divided the city — including on clear geographic lines — and which may not be decided for weeks. Taylor, a former city councilmember, held a 51% to 48% ranked-choice lead on election night over Lee, the former East Bay congresswoman — about a 1,100-vote margin.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Nate Gartrell |Jakob Rodgers
PLEASANTON — A man who lived alone with his mother told police that he used three knives to fatally stab her one morning because he was tired of her constant nagging and belittling, authorities said. But Marcus Tilley, 31, reportedly assured homicide investigators that he butchered the 71-year-old woman “quickly” and “humanely,” though his blow-by-blow account of the homicide and the police description of the crime scene doesn’t quite match up with that characterization.
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