Less than a week after the FBI raided her home for undisclosed reasons, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao parted ways with her legal counsel, held a fiery news conference declaring her innocence and sent out an email blast raising funds to fight the recall against her.
Thao did not use her government email address to solicit funds, sending campaign donors to a website called " Oakland ers Defending Democracy, Oppose the Recall of Mayor Thao."She sent the mass email on Wednesday, two days after she spoke publicly for the first time since federal agents confiscated boxes from her Maiden Lane home. The FBI declined to state what they were looking for and Thao has not been arrested or charged with any crime.
"I am a fighter and I will continue to fight every day for our beautiful city. But I need your help," she wrote in the mailer, asking for donations.The FBI raid came two days after Thao's critics submitted enough signatures to secure a recall of her, most likely in November.And calls for her to step down haven't subsided, despite her assertion that the FBI raid seemed coincidentally tied to the recall. There is no evidence the two events are related.
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