Mario Juarez had been charged over election mailers that are now at the center of an alleged criminal conspiracy by Oakland’s ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her boyfriend, and two Oakland-based businessmen were in federal court this week on widespread charges of bribery and fraud.

The DA’s move to dismiss charges against Mario Juarez comes weeks after federal prosecutors charged former mayor Sheng Thao with bribery.

Alameda County prosecutors on Friday unsuccessfully tried to dismiss a check fraud case against Mario Juarez, the Oakland businessman at the center of a sprawling federal bribery investigation that ...