Oakland's former Mayor Sheng Thao has been criminally indicted in an corruption probe just months after she was over the city's spiraling . Thao was at the center of an FBI corruption probe that centered on the city's relations with a powerful family that operates its curbside recycling program, It is unclear what exactly Thao has been charged with, but the indictment indicates that grand jurors who have been hearing evidence at a federal court in San Francisco were persuaded by prosecutors that there was enough evidence to bring Thao to trial.
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