Mayor Brown Fires Longtime Aide
Mayor Jerry Brown has fired his senior aide and longtime confidant, Jacques Barzaghi.
Brown’s office released a statement Monday announcing that Barzaghi no longer worked for the city of Oakland. Barzaghi earned $89,500 and was not eligible for a severance package.
Barzaghi met Brown in the 1970s and had worked with him since Brown became governor of California in 1975.
The firing comes less than a week after Barzaghi’s wife told police her husband tried to push her down the stairs during an argument at their home July 13. Barzaghi, who denied his wife’s allegations, was not arrested.
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