David Sacks, his wife, Jacqueline, and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya are co-hosting the event, according to a copy of the invitation. Tickets to the meal portion of the fundraiser are $300,000 per person and $500,000 per couple. It is $50,000 to attend the reception but not the dinner.

Trump’s visit comes a week after he was convicted of all 34 felony counts against him in a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election illegally through hush-money payments to an adult film actress. He became the first U.S. president ever convicted of a crime.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention is expected to nominate him as their party’s nominee in the 2024 election.

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HSQ Technology, a subsidiary of RailWorks Corporation, faced allegations it violated the federal False Claims Act for its submissions of claims related to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension Project, Ismail J. Ramsey, U.S. Attorney for California’s northern district, said in a statement.

That project aims to bring BART’s rail system to San Jose and was partially funded by a federal grant provided by the Federal Transit Administration.

Ramsey, in his statement, said HSQ acknowledged in the settlement that they entered into a subcontract in August 2012 to deliver communications systems for the Berryessa Extension Project and that it purchased and installed network communications equipment. Ramsey said the subcontract required HSQ to obtain the network communications equipment from authorized distributors unless specifically approved by VTA to do otherwise.

Instead, according to Ramsey, HSQ acquired some of the equipment through internet sites without VTA’s authorization.

In a statement released Tuesday, VTA said it “is familiar with the underlying facts and appreciates that (authorities) are helping to ensure that contractors engaged to support public projects adhere to the requirements of public contracting and the law. VTA did provide information to (authorities) in their investigation. VTA also obtained a favorable settlement with HSQ and their insurers, among others.”

Ramsey said that HSQ submitted eight claims for payment of network communications equipment between July 2015 and August 2016 but lacked documentation that the equipment came from an authorized distributor. Those claims for payment sought money funded by the federal grant, Ramsey said.

The settlement did not determine any liability, Ramsey said. The claims resolved by the settlement remain allegations only.

Officers from the San Ramon Police Department and California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force, along with San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office deputies, recovered the products Wednesday while serving search warrants at three undisclosed locations.

A statement from San Ramon police said they also arrested one person on suspicion of grand theft, possession of stolen property, organized retail theft, and conspiracy to commit a crime.

The recovered stolen products were worth $326,693 and came from Walgreens, CVS, Kohls, TJ Maxx, Safeway, RiteAid and Sunglass Hut. Police did not say specify the cities where the thefts were believed to have taken place.

Police said investigators also seized about $12,200 in proceeds from the criminal operation.

The bust came as the result of an investigation that began after the arrest of two people in November. Police said they stole about $13,000 in cosmetic products from a store at the City Center in Bishop Ranch.

That investigation led an organized retail theft team from San Ramon police to identify an illegal fencing operation in Oakland, police said. Such operations happen when items have been stolen from stores and then are knowingly re-sold to consumers.

The collision happened about 12:10 a.m. Caltrain spokesperson Mahmoud Abunie said it was a test train that hit the rider.

Emergency personnel pronounced the person dead at the scene. Authorities did not identify the person pending the notification of relatives.

The night’s last southbound passenger train — No. 284, which left San Francisco at 12:05 a.m. — was temporarily held at Hillsdale after the collision. The last northbound train had already passed the site.

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Transit Police Bureau is investigating the death. The agency patrols the Caltrain corridor.

According to Abunie, authorities have not determined what caused the collision or why the person was on the tracks. He was not authorized to be there and was trespassing, officials said.

Employees at an Old Navy store in the South Shore Shopping Center reported a grand theft at the store on Feb. 9, sparking the investigation. Alameda police in a statement said investigators identified a pattern in similar retail theft cases when organized groups entered a business and removed large quantities of merchandise.

“While we celebrate this significant milestone in our ongoing efforts to address organized retail theft, we recognize our work is far from over,” Alameda police Lt. Brian Foster said in a statement. “We remain committed to working closely with our community partners to ensure safe shopping experiences and help support the success of our local businesses.”

Police said they worked with Old Navy’s security team to identify the people entering the stores and those taking the merchandise, then collaborated with security teams from nine separate stores in the South Shore Shopping Center, witnesses and the California Highway Patrol.

Authorities did not identify the people arrested.

The collaboration led to the recovery of eight truckloads of stolen merchandise, multiple stolen vehicles and more than $10,000 in cash, police said.

The investigation is ongoing.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the charges at a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, saying that others involved on the criminal side of the organized retail theft game should take the charges as a warning that authorities are “ramping up” their efforts and ability to break such rings.

“Customers deserve to walk into a store without keeping an eye on the emergency exits,” Bonta said. “Workers deserve to clock in for their shift without fear they may not be able to safely clock out.”

Among the felony charges against each of the three people are organized retail theft, second-degree burglary, grand theft and vandalism, Bonta said. Authorities also have charged the three with 10 misdemeanors, he added.

Authorities did not identify any of the suspects, citing an ongoing investigation.

According to Bonta, the ring attempted about 25 commercial burglaries — succeeding in some — from Sept. 8 until Nov. 14 and targeted high-end retail stores, liquor stores and smoke shops.

The crimes — which authorities said included an Oct. 3 smash-and-grab robbery at a Louis Vuitton store in Walnut Creek’s Broadway Plaza, during which a suspect drove a suspected stolen Land Rover through the front window — cost businesses more than $650,000 in total, Bonta said.

The Louis Vuitton robbery netted about $246,000 of merchandise from the store, authorities said.

“In that case, there was easily a dozen suspects, maybe up to 15,” Walnut Creek police Capt. Andy Brown said at the same gathering. “We know this because we responded within a minute of the alarm at (the store). Our officers were on scene as the suspects were fleeing.”

Most eluded arrest that day, but Brown said that follow-up work by Walnut Creek detectives Matt Smith and Jenna Kolmeister led to the charges against the three.

The Contra Costa FBI Safe Streets Task Force, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations and police in Concord, Brentwood, Oakland, and Tracy all took part in the investigation.

“We’re not talking about one-off shoplifting incidents,” Bonta said. “These were not one-off smash-and-grabs at your local box store. We’re talking about a series of coordinated, organized crimes that took place over the course of two months — the same group of people over and over and over.”

On two occasions, the ring stole ATM machines, Bonta said.

The group also turned their attention to San Diego County during the two-month period, authorities said. The three are accused of stealing about $120,000 in merchandise from a Chanel store in San Diego on Nov. 8.

“This was a huge spike,” Bonta said. “These are brazen. Twenty-five incidents in about a 60-day period is essentially one every other day.”

According to Bonta, the three suspects were arraigned Wednesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court.

The inspection by Contra Costa Health Services and assisted by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will observe the operations, reliability and safety programs at the Contra Costa Refining Company, which is owned by the New Jersey-based PBF Energy, Inc., health officials announced in a statement.

Deputy Health Director Matthew Kaufmann said during a Tuesday conference call with reporters that the inspection could last “a few days, even weeks” because officials want to do “a deep dive” of the refinery.

“We’re partly focused on the reliability of the refinery in general,” Kaufmann said. “Their staff is really integral to safety. So we want to make sure they’re well-trained, understand the procedures and are committed to safety.”

Federal Glover and John Gioia, two members of the county’s Board of Supervisors, also are expected to meet Thursday with corporate officials for the refinery.

“Repeated commitments to the community and to regulators to improve the culture of safety at PBF have not resulted in improvement,” Glover said in the county’s statement announcing the inspection. “We intend to hold PBF accountable for making the necessary investments to become a better neighbor.”

In an email, refinery spokesperson Brandon Matson wrote, “We have been cooperating with all agencies and investigations related to our refinery and will continue to do so.”

The refinery last drew the health agency’s attention on Dec. 15, when a public advisory went out after refinery flaring caused excess sulfur compounds to leak and stink up the air around Martinez, Pacheco and Pleasant Hill like rotting garbage.

In October, the refinery sent a plume of black dust down upon Martinez that nearly canceled the city’s homecoming parade. That was caused by “coke dust” and marked the third such event since July.

In its statement, health officials said there have been 21 documented releases or spills in 2023, including one earlier this month that caused a grass fire at the facility. Kaufmann said refinery officials did not initially report that flaring of certain chemicals caused the blaze.

The refinery has been in the news since Thanksgiving 2022 when flaring at the facility caused a white powdery substance to rain down on Martinez.

“This is not a regular inspection,” Kaufmann said. “We have conducted unannounced inspections in the past, but I will say the health department is very concerned, and that’s why we embarked on this particular inspection.”

Kaufmann added that the investigation is in its earliest stages and that it’s “a bit early to speculate what the findings are and what the consequences may or may not be.”

Officers found a handgun, a knife, a ski mask and several bags of marijuana bearing the name of the Modesto dispensary and the stolen tracking device when they made the arrest, police said.

One of the suspects was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a gun and being a felon in possession of ammunition, police said. Both were arrested on suspicion of possessing a gun with prior drug convictions; possession of a gun with prior convictions of crimes against persons; possession of a concealed gun in a vehicle; and possession of a counterfeit driver’s license, police said.

Authorities did not say what charges the pair might face in Modesto.

Hercules officers were called Sunday about 8:15 p.m. to a Chase bank in the 4000 block of San Pablo Avenue for a report of an armed robbery suspect from an incident in another jurisdiction that was parked in front of the bank.

According to police, the reporting party told them she owned a Modesto dispensary and that one of its 25-year-old drivers was robbed and assaulted at gunpoint and knife point at about 5 p.m. Saturday. It was not known immediately whether that crime was reported to Modesto police at the time it happened.

A device inside one of the containers allowed the dispensary owner to track the stolen items to a white Toyota Highlander at the bank.

When officers arrived, they detained the two suspects and searched the vehicle. Police said the gun was reported stolen out of Mississippi and found in the woman’s purse.

The robbery victim later came to the scene and identified the two as the ones who attacked him.

Officers responded to the kidnapping call on Saturday at about 4 p.m. They found the victim at the Bank of America in the 3100 block of Crow Canyon Road, according to a statement from San Ramon police Lt. Leysy Pelayo.

The driver, a man whose age wasn’t released, told officers that an SUV with a man driving and a woman as a passenger ran into the work van, Pelayo said. She added that the two in the SUV then forced the driver to go to a San Ramon bank and take money out of an ATM.

Pelayo said via email Monday afternoon that “it does not appear the suspects brandished any weapons nor did the victim see any weapons,” but she had no details regarding how the two forced the driver to go to the bank.

After the first bank, Pelayo said the two then forced the driver to go to a bank in Dublin. They were unable to get any more money from an ATM at that bank. Once that happened, the two fled, leaving the driver behind.

Police did not identify the suspects.

In a statement, Contra Costa County Health Services said a hazardous materials team investigated the reported release of the dust about 11 a.m. and determined that it likely wasn’t bad enough to cancel the city’s community events, including Alhambra High’s homecoming parade.

The release of the dust ended soon after the refining company reported it to the county’s community warning system. Health officials said the refining company reported the release as happening at 10:31 a.m. as workers were doing maintenance.

The maintenance stopped after the leak, health officials said. They added that the refining company confirmed there would be no more maintenance Friday.

The leak is the latest trouble for the refinery, which also leaked coke dust in July and came under intense scrutiny in November.

On Thanksgiving, hazardous materials including aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium and zinc all were sent into the city in higher levels than are safe, health officials said.

In May, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice started helping the Environmental Protection Agency investigate the incident.

Some still wonder what that blanketing of dust did to the soil in the area and what it will mean to the goodwill between the community and the refinery, which has employed many of its residents for years.

The facility must provide a 72-hour report to the county regarding the cause of the release. That report will be posted at cchealth.org/hazmat.