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In a scene right out of a movie, cars with stolen license plates parked outside a home in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, made famous by BLM rioters when a career criminal was shot during a fight in a train station, and the men inside opened fire on the homeowner.
The homeowner grabbed his gun and returned fire.
While such sights are not unknown as criminals have taken over the streets in major California cities, this was not a gang drive by, or if it was, the gang in question appeared to have ties to a large network of the area and the entire state’s Democratic Party political establishment including the city’s DA and even the state’s attorney general and possible next governor.
The man under fire, Mario Juarez, a city council candidate, activist and businessman, had become an informant in a case that would turn Oakland and then California upside down.
“Why was I targeted? Because I know too much,” Juarez said.
And in a sign that the attempted assassination had ties at higher levels than just street thugs, the assassins were immediately released and the office of DA Pamela Price did not file charges.
Juarez (pictured above) was acting as an informant against DA Price, accusing her of demanding $25,000 in exchange for dropping charges against him stemming from his work for Mayor Sheng Thao’s campaign . Price, a Soros DA, whose sympathy for criminals, especially gang members, had become so extreme that she was denounced by the local NAACP, and protested by the Asian community, was successfully recalled from office.
The Soros network has spent six figures electing Price only to lose her, and while her office put the assassins of an informant against her back on the street, the FBI was already on the case, collecting evidence from the scene of the crime, indicating that they were after bigger game.
In the summer of last year, the FBI raided the home of progressive Mayor Sheng Tao, in a sprawling corruption case that allegedly ties in everything from municipal waste, overpriced ‘tiny homes’ for the homeless and a karaoke bar that dispensed everything from cocaine to hookers.
Thao gave a press conference in which she blamed “radical right-wing forces” at “odds with our Oakland values” and claimed that she was victimized because she “was born poor in America”.
Oakland voters booted her and DA Price anyway.
Alongside the Thao raid, the FBI had also raided California Waste Solutions, a government contractor owned by the powerful and wealthy Duong family, which had allegedly provided six figures from its companies to Juarez for campaign fliers attacking Mayor Thao’s opponents.
The involvement of the Duong family turned what might have been a local crime case into one with much larger statewide and even nationwide implications as Gov. Newsom plans for a presidential campaign, his attorney general seeks to replace him as the next governor and Kamala remains a question mark in both the gubernatorial and presidential elections..
Earlier this year, the FBI raided the home of Councilman Bryan Azevedo in nearby San Leandro who had taken thousands from the Duongs in his mayoral campaign, but one of the biggest recipients of Duong cash is not to be found in either Oakland or San Leandro, but Sacramento.
When Gov. Newsom announced a special legislative session to collect millions of dollars to fight Trump, its covert purpose was to elevate Newsom’s presidential ambitions and put Attorney General Rob Bonta on track to replace him as governor. Not even the LA wildfires slowed down Newsom and Bonta’s obsession with boosting their political profiles by taking on Trump.
But Bonta has a Duong problem.
Attorney General Bonta, the state’s top prosecutor, has spent his time filing frivolous lawsuits against the Trump administration while doing next to nothing, and in some cases covering up, the corruption of his party and political allies.
Bonta had not only taken $172,000 from the Duong family, but asked it to sponsor his biggest “fundraising” effort, and the Duong clan bragged that he will be “one of the best ally to ever support and will deliver whatever we ask for when help needs in the future.”
A member of the Duong clan had described the future AG as “Uncle Assemblyman Rob Bonta.”
After the FBI raids, AG Bonta announced that he was donating $155,000 from the Duongs “out of an abundance of caution” to charities. The ‘charities’ in question however were politically influential left-wing groups, including Planned Parenthood, which had endorsed his campaign. Rather than getting rid of the dirty money, Bonta used it to buy yet more political influence.
Worse was yet to come.
In an unprecedented move, the Alameda County DA’s office asked that Bonta be kept out of the investigation because “in local Democratic political circles, the defendants and the Bontas’ extensive intertwined political and business dealings are widely known.” Bonta and Juarez, the former city council candidate turned informant, had enjoyed “close financial and political ties”, had “publicly endorsed each other and have used the same office for their business dealings”.
The epicenter of the whole thing was, as it so often is in California Democrat circles, progressive gimmicks like ‘green energy’ funded by taxpayer money and a company making homes for the homeless, as well as the Willie Brown political machine that had made both Newsom and Kamala Harris into power players on a national stage.
Viridis had launched “America’s most visible biodiesel plant” to provide ‘clean energy’, but before long Juarez, its co-founder, would find himself sued for fraud, investigated over accusations of millions in stolen money, beaten in the streets and shot at by assassins.
AG Rob Bonta, who had helped provide $700,000 in taxpayer money for the ‘green energy’ operation despite the fraud lawsuit against Juarez, would be sidelined in the investigation, and the Duong family, who had provided money to both Juarez and Bonta and which was supposed to receive space through Juarez, are under siege in a statewide scandal upending California.
As the FBI investigation of the tangled mess proceeds, the question remains who tried to kill Juarez outside his home. “Why was I targeted? Because I know too much,” he said.
What does he know? And who wanted to kill him over it?
Did the toxic mix of green energy, turning shipping containers into housing for the homeless, police defunding and corrupt political connections in the upper echelons of progressive politics turn into a murder plot? The answer to the question may determine California’s next governor.
The Corrupt California series chronicles the misconduct, mismanagement and radical politics of the most broken state in the country. Stay tuned for more articles in the series. Previous articles below:
[1] California Dems Fight Trump While State Burns: CLICK HERE.
[2] Ex-Illegal Alien Senator Suspected of Bribery Leads California’s Insurance: CLICK HERE.
[3] Company That May Have Started L.A. Fires Donated Millions to Dems: CLICK HERE.
[4] California’s Legislature Hides FBI Investigations in the “Public Interest” CLICK HERE.
[5] An Assassination Has Ties to California’s Political Elite: CLICK HERE.
I tutored a black student in Fruitvale once, so I actually set foot there. She wanted me to set up a school there for black math students. The math part didn’t bother me, but I felt that organizing the school was out of my line.
This is absolutely one of the most outstanding articles I’ve read this year. If there were honest members on the Pulitzer and Nobel committees, this would get the nod. I’ve linked it to one of my articles saying “This is a must read article”. I hope it gets as broad a distribution as possible.
Thank you, very much appreciated. It is strange how little reporting there is nationally or even statewide on a story like this.
few have the guts, or chutzpah, necessary to wade into the doo doo when it gets this deep. One of he reasons I keep coming back here.
I grew up in California, (Oakland 1947 to 1955, then Orange County) leaving in 1975. I well remember the days of “Edmund G “Pat” Brown”. He was relatively “discreet” back then, but the dynasty that followed him has gotten to read like “The Godfather”. I do also remember the Reagan years, the “sunshine years” as I think of them.. His steel stamped signature (AutoPens had not yet arrived….) on my University degree. That and about five bucks might get you a drinkable cup of coffee in some places.
It astounds me to read of the deepening and continuing corruption all over the state. No qustion that, at some point, the fuse will burn down to the charge, and then the explosion will be nuclear level. Can’t come soon enough.
Agreed! California native here. This article should be required reading for every local newsroom everywhere in the entire state!
Very interesting and IMPORTANT cases – no wonder no other “media” have covered it! I do hope that AG Bondi and Director Patel have reviewed the files and have added resources to DIG DEEPER! Would it surprise anyone if the Nanzi had her bony little fingers in that corrupt cookie jar??
Of COURSE. She, after all, is part of the dynasty.
All you hear nowadays is that the Dems and the Left has lost its footing, are
leaderless, are rudderless. And now we see they can’t even get their murder
plots up and running. I’ll bet they’re sitting around right now dreaming of
the good ole days when enemies were easily Arkancided.
Sounds amusing except that it’s all true and shows the pervasive evil Americans
are dealing with. As to California – thanks to Daniel Greenfield’s revelations –
stay tuned.
Exposure always makes the Democrat/KKK/Communist party cockroaches frantically scuttle away from the bright light of truth!
I would bet that most people in California are oblivious about this and will continue their mindless voting practices.
I wonder if efforts are afoot to have Cali secede from the US (could They get away with it?), then the Chines can walk in and begin to subvert the rest of the US? I know. I’m nuts.
California is split. The large cities near the coast controlled by the Democrats, like Oakland, where this story took place. The large cities are totally corrupt and dysfunctional, but only have a small geographical area.
Then there is the sparsely populated rural countryside, beautiful but not so many people, though a huge area geographically. Exactly half the counties in the state voted to recall the governor, these were the rural counties. But there were more votes in the big Democrat cities, plus cheating was rampant. No point in getting rid of the whole huge state because of a few bad apples, namely the big Democrat cities.
A 500 year Tsunami is liable to wipe out the coastal cities at some point. The last one was probably just before the Spanish arrived so it wasn’t recorded.