Nate Gartrell
Reporter, Bay Area News Group at The Mercury News
Courts Reporter at East Bay Times
Reporter for the East Bay Times covering state and federal courts in Northern California. Bearer of bad news with no hobbies or outside interests.
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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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3 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Nate Gartrell
But now Howard Solomon is set to come to court and take responsibility for it, according to court records. This week, he is scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers and plead guilty to a federal offense, court filings say. Solomon was charged in late February with tax evasion and mail fraud. The charging records allege that he misappropriated more than $150,000 from the East Oakland Boxing club while serving as its executive director.
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3 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Nate Gartrell
NEWARK — A young man with a pending gun case has been charged with shooting members of local Norteño subsets, court records show. Xavier Medina, 20, of Oakland, was charged with two counts of attempted murder, and multiple shooting counts, according to court records. He is being held without bail and is next due in court on May 16 to enter a plea, records show. Medina was out on $7,000 bail in a pending gun case when he was arrested earlier this month, records show.
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