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   Just over a month before the FBI carried out a series of raids in Oakland,   
   a dispute between two business partners at the center of the federal   
   investigation was aired out in letters sent to Port of Oakland officials.   
      
   The letters, which The Oaklandside obtained through a public records   
   request, shed more light on the acrimonious business relationship between   
   Mario Juarez and David Duong—both named in a recent federal grand jury   
   subpoena sent to the city of Oakland.   
      
   Juarez, an Oakland political operative and businessman with real estate,   
   entertainment, and other ventures, wrote to port executives and the port’s   
   board of commissioners on May 16, alleging that two weeks earlier he had   
   been unlawfully locked out of his offices at 1211 Embarcadero, a building   
   owned by David Duong and his family. The Duongs also own Oakland’s   
   recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which has its headquarters   
   in the same building.   
      
   Juarez told port officials that the Duongs were investors in his company,   
   Evolutionary Homes, and that he’d been granted access to a ground-floor   
   suite in the building since August 2023. But on May 3, Juarez claimed in   
   his letter, he discovered the Duongs had changed the locks on the office   
   suite, preventing him from entering. According to the letter, Juarez   
   confronted David Duong and two of his relatives, Kristina and Andy, on the   
   first floor of the building. An argument ensued, Juarez wrote, and the   
   Duongs summoned several people to the site who allegedly “orchestrated a   
   physical assault and robbery.”   
      
   “I was brutally attacked and had valuable items stolen, including a high-   
   value watch, heirloom jewelry, cash, documents, and phones,” Juarez wrote.   
   He also claims he was forced to make a video apology to David Duong and   
   later reportedly suffered a seizure.   
      
   Juarez made similar statements in police reports, according to the San   
   Francisco Chronicle and East Bay Times.   
      
   In his letter to port leaders, Juarez described himself as the “Founding   
   Partner” of Evolutionary Homes. He claimed that David Duong and his family   
   agreed to invest in the startup operations of the company, which had   
   reached out to city officials over the past year seeking potential   
   homeless shelter contracts. Juarez wrote that work had been happening at   
   the office, and there were two complete modular homes inside the 1211   
   Embarcadero building.   
      
   The land at 1211 Embarcadero is owned by the Port of Oakland. The Duong   
   family leases the property from the port and another company, Wellington   
   Property, manages the location, including handling leases to subtenants. A   
   representative from Wellington did not return a phone message.   
      
   “The evidence clearly shows that I had lawful use and tenancy rights to   
   the premises at 1211 Embarcadero, Suite A, which were violated by the   
   Duong family through an illegal lockout,” Juarez wrote.   
      
   Rina Narcisse, the port’s senior commercial real estate representative,   
   forwarded Juarez’s letter to the Duongs and Wellington Property on June   
   11, advising the Duongs they were “solely responsible for complying with   
   all laws related to its occupancy, including any that involve its   
   subtenants.”   
      
   “There has been no further action by the Port and we do not have any more   
   information on this matter,” port spokesperson Marilyn Sandifur told The   
   Oaklandside in response to questions about the dispute.   
      
   David Duong responded to Narcisse the same day. In a letter, Duong refuted   
   Juarez’s allegations, which he called “bizarre and disturbing.”   
      
   “Learning of these unfounded and outlandish claims being disseminated to   
   your office is disconcerting, and I want to assure you that we are taking   
   all necessary steps to promptly and appropriately address this matter,”   
   Duong wrote. “It deeply concerns me that Mr. Juarez has chosen to spread   
   false accusations not only directly to us but also to the Port,   
   potentially causing unwarranted concern and tarnishing the reputation of   
   our property and business.”   
      
   Duong wrote that Juarez was never a tenant or subtenant at 1211   
   Embarcadero, Suite A, “nor at any property owned or operated by Duong   
   Estuary Cove, LLC. Evolutionary Homes, LLC also is not a tenant or a   
   subtenant at 1211 Embarcadero, Suite A.”   
      
   David Duong did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this   
   story. Other members of the Duong family have not responded to attempts to   
   contact them.   
      
   Evolutionary Homes’ business address is 1211 Embarcadero, Suite 300,   
   according to business records filed with the California Secretary of   
   State. However, on a recent visit to the building, The Oaklandside noticed   
   a shipping container visible on the ground floor in Suite A. It’s unclear   
   if those containers belonged to Evolutionary Homes. But Oakland City   
   Councilmember Carroll Fife told The Oaklandside this week that she was   
   shown Evolutionary Homes’ shipping container houses by Mario Juarez and   
   Andy Duong in a ground floor space of the building around the beginning of   
   this year.   
      
   According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Andy Duong told police who   
   responded to an incident at 1211 Embarcadero on May 3 that it was Juarez   
   who had acted violently by allegedly carrying a gun and telling him that   
   he had “cartel” people surrounding the building. David Duong did not   
   mention Andy Duong’s statements to the police in his letter to the port.   
      
   Two days before David Duong sent his letter to port officials, Juarez   
   claims he was shot at outside of his home in Oakland, according to a story   
   first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Juarez told police that he   
   believed the attack was in response to his involvement in an   
   investigation, according to the East Bay Times.   
      
   Less than two weeks after the attack, federal agents raided the homes of   
   David and Andy Duong, the 1211 Embarcadero building, and Mayor Sheng   
   Thao’s home.   
      
   https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/11/oakland-fbi-investigation-allegations-   
   port-duong-evolutionary-homes/   
      
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