Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao talks with a guest, left, and Elizabeth Echols, right, president of the East Bay Regional Parks District Board of Directors, during the election night watch party for ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and three others have been indicted by a federal jury following a corruption investigation, ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is facing up to 95 years in prison after pleading not guilty to federal bribery charges. Three others have also been indicted following a corruption investigation.

Sheng Thao, right, is all smiles with her son Benedict after taking the Oath of Office as the 51st Mayor of Oakland during the inauguration ceremony at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., on ...

Rivals of recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao react to indictment 03:56. The federal corruption charges against former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao did not come as a surprise to many of her political ...

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao faces a November recall election with an unresolved FBI investigation hanging over campaign. Former FBI agent says the agency has guidelines about elections to appear non- ...

Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao blasted the federal investigation that led to the FBI raiding her California home last week — claiming if she was rich and went to an elite school she wouldn't ...

Thao tweeted Monday night that she will be a "mayor for all of Oakland." "It's been a long journey, and I'm incredibly honored by the trust the voters have placed in me," Sheng said.

All of these factors have pushed Mayor Sheng Thao to the brink of losing her job less than two years after she was sworn into office. Ms. Thao, 39, is trying to survive the nation’s first recall ...