The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/21/state-ag-rob-bonta-dragged-back-into-sheng-thao-scandal-with-claims-there-is-compromising-video-of-him/A witness in the Sheng Thao investigation claims there is “compromising” video tying state Attorney General Rob Bonta into the whole mess, which may be a hogwash claim, but Bonta has spent about $500,000 on lawyers to defend himself. Not long after then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s house was raided by the FBI in the summer of 2024, a quickie scandal bubbled up that state Attorney General Rob Bonta had some tangential involvement, vis a vis his helping steer $680,000 in state loan money to a failed energy startup run by one of the figures in the Sheng Thao scandal. That scandal never went anywhere, and Bonta, who was a stat

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