Shomik Mukherjee
Reporter at The Mercury News
Reporter at Oakland Tribune
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7 hours ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee
OAKLAND – The Oakland Unified School District elected-board officially fired the superintendent on Wednesday at a contentious meeting where they gave no reasoning for the dismissal. The board reached a voluntary separation agreement with Kyla Johnson-Trammell, who had led the district since 2017, and shepherd the school system through its struggles to get out from under control by state and Alameda County education officials.
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23 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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2 days ago |
dailyitem.com | Shomik Mukherjee
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New: Loren Taylor is narrowly outspending Barbara Lee in the Oakland mayoral race, both thru campaign cash and independent committees supporting him. One group backing Taylor got $70K from an SF tech founder who in 2016 co-launched Neuralink w/ Elon Musk https://t.co/dztOPy0tC5
New: Loren Taylor is narrowly outspending Barbara Lee in the Oakland mayoral race, both thru campaign cash and independent committees supporting him. One group backing Taylor got $70K from an SF tech founder who in 2016 co-launched Neuralink w/ Elon Musk https://t.co/dztOPy0tC5
more info here, including Oakland mayor's firing today of every last staffer held over from the Sheng Thao administration
Oakland mayor’s chief of staff fired over private notes referring to Black people as ‘tokens’ https://t.co/fgDwHALyNO