Oakland mayor's former chief of staff details what she shared with FBI during 2023 meeting

we're also learning new information today about the kinds of questions that the FBI is asking let's bring in ABC7 News it team reporter Dan no who's been on this story from the start Dan well Kristen and Dan the mayor's Chief of Staff former Chief of Staff described an office filled with confusion and Chaos much of it centered around the mayor's partner Andre Jones and that finally led her to resign her position as the mayor's Chief of Staff not only did I run her office I was very instrumental and helping run campaign Renee Webb tells me she served as chief of staff for shanga for a year and a half and that she questioned the amount of money Andy dwang was funneling to the campaign Webb says she shared concerns with the FBI in a meeting February 3rd of last year she gave me texts and emails from the FBI that confirmed the meeting in just the line of questioning I could tell that they had already been looking into you know some of their kind of payto playay type of activities oh really what sorts of things were they saying in terms of the questions about pay to play um just about board appointments about contracts um about Andy you know about the dang family web says she knew Thursday's raid by the FBI was coming we spotted Andy dang leaving his house and his name on evidence boxes that the IRS agents carried out of the dwang family business California Waste Solutions the lead investigator from the Oakland Public ethics commission confirms to me that the Dangs are still under investigation for a money laundering scheme court documents I've received alleged that Andy dang arranged contributions to candidates including Shang Taw using straw donors some of the phony donors allegedly came from fuk Tran president of the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce in response fuk Tran said he wouldn't cooperate in the investigation based on his Fifth Amendment right to be free from being compelled to incriminate himself web tells me the end for her as Chief of Staff came on the day T was sworn in that the mayor's partner Andre Jones tried to bring his ex-wife into the ceremony and then finally I was like Andre I don't know what's wrong with you but you got to get the hell out of here I was like this is too much I don't know what's going on Shang was all crying she was like why would you do this to me on my day like this is crazy web tells me she texted shanga during the raid to say she's praying for the mayor she has a good heart and she came in this wanting to do it but sometimes that power and that machine just takes people to another level in the wrong direction oh yeah the way wrong direction and we're all paying the consequence for it and she has more details on that and I'll be posting that on my social media for the IT team Dan noise ABC7 News

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Length: 2min 45sec (165 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 22 2024