The criminal proceedings against the key number in the FBI examination from Oakland

A judge of the Supreme Court has agreed to drop a criminal fraud against Mario Juarez a few weeks after the announcement of the district of Alameda County.

At a court hearing on Friday, the deputy da Kate Deferrari said that there were questions whether the case could be demonstrated without any doubt. She also suggested that there are an appearance of “inappropriateness” that could make it difficult for a jury.

At the beginning of this month, a judge from Alameda County rejected the DA's application to dismiss the case. During an earlier hearing, the alleged victim, a printing owner named Samari Johnson, advocated postponing his decision until the new one, Ursula Jones Dickson, was sworn in and had the opportunity to check the matter. After a very short discussion, the judge agreed to dismiss.

Juarez, a businessman of Fruitvale, celebrated the release in a long explanation that was shared in a text message to the press. Juarez wrote that this was “not just a legal victory – it is a victory for truth, fairness and the resilience of the human mind against corruption and abuse of power”.

Juarez criticized the former, Pamela Price, strongly and accused her of blackmailing him and intimidating him. Juarez also demanded that numerous media, including the Oaklandside, apologize and public corrections for reporting on his legal proceedings. And he praised Dickson, but asked that the two prosecutors who were hired by Price: Kwixuan Maloof and Jimmy Wilson.

Political mail and rebounded Scheck

The case from December 2022, when Johnson submitted a police report and claimed that Juarez, commissioned his shop, Butterfly Direct Marketing, to print thousands of mailers that attack opponents in the Mayor elections 2022 Sheng Thaos. Juarez also founded a website to attack Pamela Price that ran for there. The Scheck's Juarez wrote to pay the mailers who supposedly bounced down and left Johnson with bills that he could not pay.

The Commission for Political Practices of the State Fair Political Practices examined the political mailers and bad checks at the end of 2022, but ultimately found that they were not responsible to pursue Juarez or anyone else. However, the state watchdog group, which enforces the electoral laws, sent a letter to the then Da Nancy O'malley in December 2022 and wrote: “This complaint can contain violations that deserve their examination.”

On January 23, 2024, Juarez was charged about a year after taking over the management of the DA office.

In the past few months, the case has taken several explosive curves in the form of court files that contained sensational accusations.

In October, Juarez 'lawyer Ernie Castillo asked the court to reject the case and claimed that the price against Juarez had taken retribution measures. According to Juarez, Price demanded 25,000 US dollars from him on January 7, 2024 -just two weeks before he was charged in the case of the bad checks -to help her fight the recall with which she was confronted. In response to this, the deputy da Kwixuan Maloof submitted an application in which Juarez submitted 295,000 US dollars for the payment of the attack mixers from two city entrepreneurs, California Waste Solutions and ABC Security Services.

Castillo told The Oaklandside that he had never seen such a case in his 23 years of practicing as a criminal defense lawyer and noted that what started as a simple check fraud case “became” became a resolution of the inappropriateness of the government “.

“I think the discharge talks volumes about Mario's innocence in this case,” said Castillo.

In his explanation to the media, Juarez did not refer to a more suitable problem that is more suitable for civil courts, not for criminal persecution.

Price announced the Oaklandside that it was common for the public prosecutor to dismiss a case if there are questions whether it can prove itself without any doubt. She said that in Juarez 'case “from day one” there was evidence of evidence, but also many evidence that supports the indictment.

Price said when she was there, the office reacted to Juarez's claims in a December registration that referred his claims about her to blackmail him. Juarez has attacked it for years, said Price. She accused Juarez of being “a crook”, and found that the office who last year has started to accuse Juarez with the examination of Juarez about a separate complaint by a businessman, Stewart Chen.

“The fact that in this case he was able to avoid a criminal conviction does not mean that he is not held accountable for other victims who have also complained about his financial misconduct,” said Price.

Overlap with the ongoing studies of the FBI to political corruption

Some of the allegations from Maloof's application in December again appeared in the charges against Thao, her partner Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong, the Californian waste solutions. The charges in January claimed that the Mailers were part of a bribot that was orchestrated between Thao, Jones and the Duongs. In return for tens of thousands of dollars, the duongs were supposedly their selection of high -ranking city positions and promises to extend their company's contract. The federal prosecutor also claims that Thao has agreed that the city acquired hundreds of temporary modular residential units of evolutionary houses – a company led by Duongs and Juarez. Juarez was not mentioned in the federal case. Neither has ABC security.

Johnson, the owner of Butterfly Direct Marketing, is disappointed with the release. According to Johnson, the US mail service blocked its US confidence account due to Juarez actions, which prevented him from doing printing and post -jobs.

Johnson told The Oaklandside that he recently met with Da Da Da DaTon and Deferrari, and they told him that they never normally describe people because of bad checks.

Johnson claims that the office who refused to share some evidence in court. One of these records is a letter that the FBI gave him in September 2024, which identifies him as a victim in an FBI examination with allegations of financial fraud. The purpose of the letter seems to be to help Johnson receive financial support.

In his press release, Juarez wrote that he offered Johnson voluntarily paying Johnson. Johnson confirmed that he received money from Juarez, but said that this was a fraction of the schooled fraction.

“I have no confidence in the new one, which means that I have no confidence in any change in the Alameda County system,” said Johnson.

Correction: A previous version of this story wrote the name of Kate Deferrari.