The federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao began in earnest Wednesday, with prosecutors and defense attorneys presenting the jury with starkly different versions of the case. At the start of what’s expected to be a roughly six-week trial, opposing attorneys painted the defendants as, on one hand, cunning political operatives and shady […]
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