California Attorney General Rob Bonta faces questions about his campaign account spending large sums of money on legal services in connection to a bribery investigation into former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.

KCRA reported that Bonta’s campaign account spent close to $500,000 through five separate payments to law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in February.

Driving the news: The payments were for legal help in the bribery investigation into Sheng Thao and the Duong family, a Bonta advisor told KCRA. • Bonta had received $155,000 in campaign contributions from the Duong family, which he returned after the investigation revealed that the Duong family were indicted on federal bribery charges. • Bonta’s campaign account, which had around $6.2 million in October, paid the law firm a

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