USPS owed thousands by man who ordered mailers in support of Thao during mayor’s race

Da Lin reports on money owed to the USPS by a man who sent out attack mailers in support of Oakland Mayor Thao during the mayoral race.
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[@Victor-it6bv]

Thao shall not steal

[@-dash]

Nice 😂

[@hmongusa664]

Lol! Lawd, have mercy! 🤣

[@johnwhodat8135]

😂

[@ladedalounge]

Thao going down

[@Chucky415]

Gold 😂😂

[@zzhou1557]

Affordable Housing, Support the Homeless, Support the schools, all code words to funnel our tax dollars to these corrupt officials. We've been paying into the system for decades and how has California improved if those are truly our priorities?

[@RobotNannyDiaries]

None of the elected or the NGOs actually address the Corporate buyup of housing and the real drivers to homeless. Just more money for “housing” no one owns (loves/nurtures) and ma$$ive towrads admin and bloated $alaries

[@SeanPan-it3jm]

Do this particular mayor has any thing to do with what you said?

[@2a2dabay2atx]

​​@@SeanPan-it3jmthats the playbook. They all do it

[@mikepond4865]

Ask Newscum what happened to the missing billions. He knows he's untouchable. All this money allocated to the homeless crisis and it has multiplied. It's like a criminal operation.

[@tedcollins4684]

$20 billion more!?

[@batcactus6046]

Nasty mailers. Nasty Mayor.

[@SeanPan-it3jm]

Sorrow losers did it.

[@ladedalounge]

Chicago here, same thing but so much well....yeah....

[@dwj9099]

Blaming the boyfriend is next.

[@DeeTruth415]

He's going to take the fall......

[@clubmogambo3214]

And give it time, they'll eventually get around to blaming Trump.

[@cowarddonnie-ji5yz]

​@@clubmogambo3214 impossible. Chump is never wrong, it's always someone else's fault.

[@karlchristensen6277]

@@The8DonShe’s gonna blame BBC.

[@drehardin]

Certainly Is !

[@lillygirl7238]

Lock her up!

[@Juctice6969]

Lock up the snitched, mastermind, Whyte conspiracy, and racial profiles.

[@adelmomontero3554]

that is for Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi

[@Denniss7420]

@@adelmomontero3554 and Sheng Thao!

[@TheDieselmonkey11]

Ohhhh spare me your magat fascists BS and get a grip on reality!

[@tommyl5319]

​@@adelmomontero3554 and yet with all the complaining about it, there was never any evidence of a crime. Funny, even Donald couldn't find anything real on either one. Idk about you, but I prefer actual evidence, like the facts that a certain someone openly disparaged fallen soldiers, encouraged warfare against our allies because he wanted to look tough, and repeatedly says things that only need the most basic of fact checks to see that they're false. These are just some things that are fully documented from the horse's mouth

[@marineboy0055]

If u ain’t scamming u ain’t trying - Thao

[@kitmarshall4084]

bingo! not paying USPS came back to bite them!

[@Diesel437]

They also get you on the technicalities, now they committed a felony by not filing they financial disclosure for political contributions 😂

[@bikedawg]

She belong behind bars along with all her cronies.

[@drsev61]

She should run for Senate. She's already corrupt and a good liar.

[@kevinjay5908]

Good liars dint get caught.

[@johnwhodat8135]

Newsomes replacement 😂

[@donaldotrumpriguez2024]

shes not a good liar but that doesnt disqualilfy a politician

[@ImionsaeXwb77]

Democrats would vote her in over GOD so yeah she should...

[@chriskleine2690]

Exactly

[@xycid]

The average trash bill is $20/month. Oakland has 150,000 households. So Cal Waste Solutions makes approximately $30 million in revenue/year. That's a lot of money to buy corrupt politicians like Thao. Let's check Recology next

[@user-mx9tu9xd1b]

Notice when a city is in complete downfall, usually because the politicians.

[@drehardin]

🗳️ And tremendously ignorant voters.

[@dymondlyfe1603]

Always womyn of color....

[@albrokenomoney2127]

When ignorance and laziness rules the vote we end up with a skid row city.

[@jamesrecknor6752]

Denver joins the chat

[@user-mx9tu9xd1b]

SF says hold my beer

[@conner_b_griften]

Get raided by FBI, ask for more tax (bond) money. Make perfect gov't sense.

[@Nogoingback424]

That’s awful to do that to a business owner. But it doesn’t matter if it’s a Black owned” business. It’s wrong to do that to anyone.

[@ABoyd1852]

Exactly!

[@sandblast5636]

LMAO

[@Reese1882yw]

You’re being triggered over absolutely nothing the only reason people emphasize the race of these businesses is because of the communities they often serve it’s not that deep all lives matter😂😂

[@donaldallen1768]

​@@Reese1882yw Well, in this case it was one Minority being "f" by several other Minorities 🤷

[@Reese1882yw]

@@donaldallen1768 it’s an unfortunate reality of business but minority owned doesn’t mean scumbag free

[@user-pg9nm8ue7b]

Politicians have ceased working for the best interests of the people in favor for their own personal interests. This has got to stop

[@warthogA10]

Well.. the population has allowed all of it for decades so.. who's truly to blame? 🤔

[@mattbosley3531]

When did politicians ever work for the best interests of the people? Maybe a few, but not most.

[@MargaretCho-pt3ng]

They work for the little hats

[@beethao9380]

@@warthogA10 exactly. so many irresponsible hypocrites come in and run their mouths when they're part of the problem for allowing it to happen for so long.

[@JerjerB]

Moneyed interests who have poisoned our elections... ​@@warthogA10

[@thomasmonts720]

She must go!!!!!!!!!

[@SeanPan-it3jm]

Thousands? You mean millions right？

[@alexlopez5800]

Exactly

[@zoeyangelpup]

I do believe the mayor angered someone otherwise she would have continued her corrupt ways.

[@spookrockcity]

Democrats know they are about to get destroyed in November so they are switching out some of their worst DEI hires. Bowman was another good example of this, but he went against the Israel narrative and bit the corporation that owns his soul.

[@sunmoonlove4198]

Somebody didn't get their share and flipped the script 😂😂😂

[@jeanesingsjazz]

I thought the USPS demanded payment upfront for massive mailings.

[@jessicak958]

The check bounced

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

@@jessicak958Nowadays, merchants would know right then if there’s enough funds to cover the check but I guess the Postal Service Office is still behind on that technology.

[@jessicak958]

@@mikewhocheeseharry5292 it seemed like the funds were transferred from mayor’s friend to the guy doing the work, and when he finished he maybe 🤔 already covered it, before the check could clear. So he was out of 53,000 and the work was already sent out.

[@FranktheDachshund]

They hired a third party to do the mailing, and wrote bad checks to that business.

[@xesxblackarrow7912]

This is not looking good for her. It’s like unwrapping a moldy tamale.

[@swiitchy511]

Let me stop that guy right there, saying to "stiff a black-owned business is shameful" is racist af because it implies that it's less 'shameful' to stiff any other race's business.

[@warthogA10]

Democrat politicians and their media have to continually use identity to keep the population divided.. it's all they've got and their biggest bread winner.

[@mctrimm7097]

Yeah, that's when he lost me.

[@roughneckjihad1003]

Contextualizing an incident in regards to the race of the people involved is not inherently racist. No superiority or inferiority is inferred. The point is that POC have fewer businesses and suffer from racism and discrimination. So POC should not stiff each other while the system is screwing them simultaneously.

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@roughneckjihad1003 Did you look at the flyers that he’s bitching about not being paid for? He does not give a damn about black people. But he cares a lot that he’s black.

[@michaelbailey5257]

​@@roughneckjihad1003 They suffer from very very very long finger nail syndrome. When they wipe, pokes through toilet paper.

[@seanwallace89]

What is the relevance of it being a "black-owned"... any owned small business being shutout should be advocated for.

[@UrsulaPowers]

I agree.

[@jaquanpowell4605]

Maybe if you people supported every business instead of being focused on skin color than black owned wouldn’t have to be highlighted

[@robthebold4589]

That phrase is used to gin up sympathy.

[@foofooblenda734]

hahaha they still think they were slaves too aha ahhahahahaha lolololololl

[@jaquanpowell4605]

@@foofooblenda734 smdh

[@fredliperson9171]

Stiffing any business white or black owned 60,000 is wong!

[@ConcernedCitizensLosBanosCA]

that's one reason why these folks over there have issues, they bring race into EVERYTHING, bad people, good people...leave it at that

[@LtShahdirty]

You're problem was trusting a politician. Now you owe $60k. Always get your money up front

[@nhantran6645]

there is the main reason why countries could not develop CORRUPTION.

[@dwoodinnyc]

Can someone please tell that woman she has a fishing lure stuck to her face

[@reniawebb9966]

😂 thanks for the laughter 6:04 . I had just put oil on my face & the sun was beaming -my earring got stuck 😅

[@Larry-dt7kz]

LOL​@@reniawebb9966

[@seananderson5334]

​@@reniawebb9966haha, that's funny. All in good fun

[@AI_MIT_71]

Blame on the voters. They put the politicians there.

[@VanityVapid]

No actually we didn’t. Loren Taylor won the popular vote by 6,500 votes. But Oakland rank choice voting made him lose to Thao by 695 votes. Blame politricks. This was not the will of Oakland voters. Check your facts before you play the blame game.

[@AI_MIT_71]

@@VanityVapid Not a blame game but a reality. Had Oakland been good in the past…? Or just bad under the mayor Sheng Thảo?

[@jamesrecknor6752]

Comrades, please, no matter how bad things get, we must continue to support The Party.

[@brandonthrasherexodus]

Exactly

[@jasonholt1853]

West coast is corrupt as hell so whatever works for you. Voting gimme a fing break

[@p-dub7422]

Horrible! No words!

[@jannyzhingaz9562]

wooaa and the plot thickens this is the very definition of when the 💩 hits the fan, and we're just getting warmed up

[@eddelao2762]

It all makes sense why the Postal inspector got involved in the raid. Webb is absolutely credible

[@palatialslumlord4938]

Oh, so only when they involve money not trickling back to the government, then they want to come out & say hey "you did this wrong" but wouldn't care if they got their cut

[@user-tr8fs7lm8r]

This sounds like a gofundme scam.

[@theresarathell4686]

How do you get mail flyers from the post office on an IOU? God forbid you're 5 cents short on a letter, you'll be getting that sucker back.

[@strongislandhandyman5712]

As soon as he said a black owned business I was happy he got stiffed. He basically said it would be ok to do it to anybody else.

[@egr3071]

Exactly 🙄 smh

[@Poppadop1]

Remember Biden's "If you don't vote for me, you ain't Black" comment? What if this is a dig at Democrats pretending they care about helping Black-owned businesses become more competitive, so if they get stiffed, all businesses are liable to get stiffed?

[@vuxle]

Thao needs Jesus, Ozempic, and a good lawyer.

[@irandude1655]

When I did our mailers, usps will only deliver it once it is paid . This is sketchy

[@timsmusic7349]

The payment bounced. Services were provided in good faith and the check must have passed some level of funds available.

[@nomenclature9373]

Years ago I worked on editing some political ads. Client paid up front, check cleared. Then the client wanted me to make the ad buys for tv. That was a lot more $$$ than editing. Insisted client pay up front. First check from them for the buy bounced. Gave client the tape, told them they were no longer a client and they would need to make the ad buy themselves. Spot had very little air time and a challenger won.

[@timsmusic7349]

@@nomenclature9373 Political ads sound like a strange clientele! Editing political Ads must be a very funny business 😉 I can imagine spinning stories in all directions 🤣

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

So enraged, SMH, I cannot be civil on here, so I am done. Loren needs a good lawyer. Sue her penniless.

[@tonespeaks]

@BigEightiesNewWave He can't sue, mailers were done by private person.

[@parrotcracker6629]

I never trust any candidate who uses attack ads. It's plain dirty. If you have time to attack your opponent instead of promoting yourself and your "many accomplishments" then you aren't fit to represent the people.

[@doright8355]

All this was because USPS was owed $31K for the postage due to 3 bounce checks. I thought Thao was making millions on corruption issues.

[@chuckxu5910]

Using fraudulent mail in ballots now got caught

[@joeblow1688]

I have a hunch this goes much deeper than what we know. It is a slippery slope for the Mayor and Birds of a feather flock together.

[@johng4093]

No, this postal thing was just "extra credit", she still is involved in awarding city contracts in exchange for bribes ("pay to play").

[@warthogA10]

.. don't mess with the USPS 😉

[@johnhanson9245]

Ha....Typical blind Democrat....."This is all about $31K.....Yeah, keep believing it....Senator Menendez has $450,000 in cash stuffed in shoes in his closet and 6 gold bars also stuffed in his closet and he is charged with many felonies....Make up a story on that Felon too

[@billmoore7305]

I feel for the small business owner that got stiffed. He seems like a decent guy.

[@IntriguedLioness]

I feel for all small business owners if they get a situation like this. But I could not be that person. To own a printing company and print materials that you know is liable, hateful, and will sway elections!? How can you do that for a living, no self respect?????

[@johng4093]

A small business like that doesn't have enough money to cover a bad debt like that, it can easily put them out of business... it's pretty callous for Thao's donors to stiff him and after all this time havn't paid it back.

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@IntriguedLioness How can one do something like that for a living and then turn around and be surprised when the people that employed you stab you in the back?

[@njp6343]

Everyone in this is well fed!

[@Hotharo]

I really enjoy news reporter DA LIN" reports. Da Lin is very good at reporting the facts and is in my opinion the best news reporter for CBS News. Keep up the great work buddy.

[@DKLGalactus5]

Affordable housing scam, affordable to who? The people of Oakland give taxpayers money to private companies to build in Oakland. WTF we can't even afford yo pay our property tax let alone your hourly wage witch in most cases are above 120K a year.

[@myobmyob2215]

Seriously you better walk your prop taxes payment and get a hard timestamped receipt this year. Your money is going somewhere but is that payment being redirected to some other acct, deleted or fudged?

[@Paiadakine]

Something fishy with these democratic politicians. No wonder Oakland is a chit show.

[@aloha270999]

Why don't they go after Gavin the bigger fish 30 billion is missing.

[@NormanSilver]

In Asia this is known as a Tong. Bad news too.

[@victorcarrera4091]

Disgraceful, like all of California.

[@nomenclature9373]

I believe the Heritage Foundation tracker has FL in the lead.

[@joseg93ify]

Recall her!

[@MH_6160]

Thao needs to make the marketing business whole..

[@tonespeaks]

@MH_6160 She didn't pass the bad checks. Some other goof ball.

[@HomeEF]

Wow, Why don't they put her in jail once and for all? What's the problem, the crime she committed is so obvious!!! Stop the nd and do justice !!!

[@joek9324]

Corruption is our country downfall.

[@KnockoutInvesting]

Oh great more taxes. I'll be voting no.

[@jimfesta8981]

Sounds like a little malfeasance going on at USPS. Try mailing an envelope without a stamp and see what happens.

[@albeit1]

It sounds like the printer paid the postage and then the checks he was paid with bounced.

[@bcatbb2896]

My guess is someone wrote the cheque from a campaign account that was empty to begin with

[@ChiliSkwertz]

Sounds like you don’t know what a business account is

[@nomenclature9373]

Sometimes a business or a person gets a check and endorses it over to another party instead of depositing into their account to make sure it clears, then cuts a new check. The person who signed it over is now responsible if the check bounces. Kinda appears that is what happend. Really bad business practice.

[@johnhanson9245]

Ha, another Democrat who denies anything against his Peeps...Sorry, take a pill for your delusion...You will feel better.

[@ZMAN0224]

She's history

[@cheems5643]

Slimy mayor as soon as she gets into office she starts putting her people first

[@RacerX1971]

So pathetic 🙄

[@Pavel-yz2cm]

Keep voting blue, no matter who, Oakland. 🎉

[@romulus_]

nothing better on the other side of the coin. nothing.

[@autumnislovely]

@@romulus_ You're absolutely right 💯

[@SRunni_]

Where the heck is the money?!?!?!

[@DRAGNET-pn5vf]

THE CHECKS BOUNCED AND THEN HE BOUNCED OUT OF TOWN!😂😵‍💫👍🏻

[@alanfoden571]

Put her in jail

[@masterkinglee]

Jail time!

[@briandufoe3719]

Greed,greed,greed It's not only those on the low economic level who commit crimes, Seems the well off are worse,greed,greed,greed.

[@albeit1]

Sometimes it pays to wait until the check clears. Or go directly to the bank the check is drawn on. I had a terrible landlord once who was very slow refunding the deposit. When the check finally came, I drove directly to his bank and cashed it, happy to get him out of my financial life for good.

[@nomenclature9373]

When I worked in political advertising as a side job, I had the client pay up front, and waited for the check to clear into my bank account. I nearly got burned once when a client wanted me to make tv ad buys. Their check bounced and I immediately dropped them. Would have also been out big $ if I had not waited.

[@davinxi5926]

these DNC are also using these mailers

[@spookrockcity]

All these DEI hires need to start getting put in prison for their blatant corruption.

[@Jozeha]

Yea because white people don’t do stuff like that.

[@grimmettcleaningservices7003]

I'm a 44-year-old African-American. When I was coming up, they all was told us if we ever got into these positions we had to be "better than the white man". Always thought that was kind of racist, and brushed it off. They would say the reason was if you got in there and did a bad job, it would be used as an excuse to keep black folks out of that job or industry. By doing a good job, they meant doing your job with excellence and no corruption. I've always operated like that on any job, but specifically if I'm the only black person there. They would even say that extends to other races too. How does that relate to this situation? Simple. As far as I know, this mayor was the first Asian mayor in Oakland history. Based on the way that I was raised, that means she's supposed to do an excellent job and not be involved in corruption. Clearly that's not the case here. So I don't get mad when people talk about DEI hires, like that mayor Tiffany henyard or that judge in Georgia. This is exactly what I was taught would happen if you got in this position, and decided to be foolish instead of doing a great job. No matter what your ethnicity is, no matter what the job is, do the job to your best of the ability and stay away from corruption. If not, you deserve to go. P.S. quick question. If you believe you're part of a system that is out to get your particular demographic, why would you think you could get away with corruption in said system?

[@Jozeha]

I know right white people never do this, that why this country never needed slaves to succeed.

[@Vostro123]

Ok, but why FBI is silent? Isn't it normal practice to provide public with information what's going on?

[@myobmyob2215]

If all the acronym agencies are getting involved it's wide, deep and they haven't been getting their cut.

[@jamiebrown8608]

That's why you keep people like this out of office!

[@andrewczski1969]

Mailer business dude: womp-womp!🤣🤣

[@tmacdagreattv]

Oakland is done!

[@HiThere-du4up]

Good, send her to prison.

[@doggking001]

S**t is getting deeper and deeper!! 😂

[@user-up5wi4yr9s]

We want this liar in prison!

[@soldozer]

She needs to throw in the Thao before she gets recalled or goes to jail.

[@paulburns4721]

But she cried on TV. Doesn't that count for something? 😂😂😂

[@Lone-Wolf87]

Welcome to California.

[@phyxd2670]

The mayor probably forgot to pass the thickest envelope to the governor and now all hell has come down on her

[@IDKeffect82]

Good job Oakland. Stop voting with emotions and vote with common sense.

[@edwinpayes1728]

The lady in the blue shirt lying😂😂😭😭

[@BottomFocus]

Its more shameful that Loren Taylor felt the need to used a race card when talking about the business that was impacted. As a representative, he should care about all business regardless of who owns them.

[@drehardin]

@3:51 She saved herself a tremendous headache by packing up at the first sign of smoke. Because now its a fire 🚒

[@gophukyurselvs3621]

0:14 look at the lady smirking lol

[@stevecobb9230]

The USPS owes me $9,000 for failing to forward mail to my new POB. They have also lost tens of billions in the last two decades (87 billion between 2007 and 2019) while privately owned companies like FedEx and UPS have made billions during the same time period. There is no better example of the difference between private companies and government entities in functionality, productivity, streamlining, efficiency, and performance. It is absolutely criminal what we as citizens are willing to accept from our government.

[@2ellas2]

When does the post office give people credit?

[@duzzitmatter8679]

Why not make it $200B?? If you’re gonna line your pockets with tax payer money, go big or go homeless.

[@bruh_hahaha]

Lock her up! Lock her up!

[@Felix28Blessed]

now investigate new york and atlanta

[@WilliamNeish]

“Almost cost him his liveli-hawd”

[@californiacavemandastardly6538]

Meanwhile the whole council and city management needs to be fired. Also the voters prove their vote is useless. This mayor approved parking RVs on the side of the road....wtf stupid voter goes for that?

[@georgewolfiii1170]

There is nothing wrong with RVs parked on the side of roads. Where else are they supposed to park?

[@californiacavemandastardly6538]

@@georgewolfiii1170 park those RVs on your property

[@georgewolfiii1170]

​@@californiacavemandastardly6538 You will get bad karma from God for blocking or prohibiting people who live in RVs from parking anywhere. Try and look at it from their point of view, and get some good karma for yourself, rather than bad karma.

[@DartanyoValentino-gc9kb]

creature of the black lagoon

[@HsingSun]

What is a real good law without corruption to run for a "Mayor?"

[@victorle7693]

Get rid of her

[@nobullzone8394]

This is Straight Out of The Sopranos😅

[@svang1991]

Why does it matter that the small business that was “stiffed” is “black-owned”? I’m so over this woke BS.

[@ed0078]

“black owned” come on stop it already

[@marketads1]

Unreal.

[@robertkeith9620]

buy buy California... what a joke.

[@JerjerB]

She belongs in prison. No accountability to her constituents.

[@kds365]

Jail, to prison, then deport.

[@KM-zu9we]

More Didn’t Earn It people acting like expected.

[@nomenclature9373]

Take it the checks were made out to the direct mailer guy who signed them over to the post office instead of first depositing into his business account to make sure they cleared. Hopefully, the Postal Inspector can sort it out and lift the direct mailer guy's suspension.