“The reference to any video is absolutely not true. It’s false and there is no video.”
— Attorney General Rob Bonta, in a KQED interview about a May 9, 2024 letter he received from Oakland political operative Mario Juarez, whose credibility has come under attack in recent court filings related to a sprawling East Bay corruption case, that claimed a businessman ensnared in that case “has a recording of you in a compromising situation.”