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Amy Hillyard Oakland Update As New Clues Emerge In Case Of Missing Oakland Businesswoman & Friend

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Amy Hillyard Oakland Update As New Clues Emerge In Case Of Missing Oakland Businesswoman & Friend A digital forensic review of home computer records revealed unexamined hiking trails in Oakland and Berkeley, providing a major new lead six months after Amy Hillyard’s disappearance. I am Zennie Abraham, Zennie62Media CEO, Oakland blogger and vlogger who was a regular at Farley’s East Cafe at 33 Grand Avenue and who interviewed both Chris and Amy Hillyard on verious occasions over the last 12 years. A group of volunteers is mobilizing Sunday to search unexamined hiking trails in Oakland and Berkeley, holding onto hope that a major new clue will finally lead them to the 52-year-old coffee shop owner who has been reported missing for just over six months. Amy Hillyard, co-owner of Farley’s coffee shops, was last seen walking near her Oakland home on March 25, having left behind her phone and wallet. Now, her family and friends have a renewed sense of hope following a digital breakthrough in the case. Private investigator Steve Fischer, hired by the Hillyard family, said a deep digital forensics dive of her home computer revealed she spent 33 minutes looking at eight different hiking trails in Oakland and Berkeley the morning before she disappeared. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/BSvGI9i

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QB Case Keenum Big Game On MNF Leads Chicago Bears Over Phili Eagles 27 To 7 With 247 Yds 3 TDs

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QB Case Keenum Big Game On MNF Leads Chicago Bears Over Phili Eagles 27 To 7 With 247 Yds 3 TDs

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Las Vegas Raiders 3 and 0 First Time Since 2021 By Eric Pangilinan

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Las Vegas Raiders 3 And 0 Just Win Baby By Eric Pangilinan

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Congrats Jameis Winston & The NY Giants On Gutsy Win In The Wind & Rain vs The Titans & Doubters

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Congrats Jameis Winston & The NY Giants On Gutsy Win In The Wind & Rain vs The Titans & Doubters

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Vegas Paulie C Meets 50 Cent In Las Vegas But Can’t Take Constructive Criticism On His Vlog From Me

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Vegas Paulie C Meets 50 Cent In Las Vegas But Can’t Take Constructive Criticism On His Vlog From Me

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Hey Oakland Police Wrongful Arrest In Atlanta Puts Flock Camera Use In Question There Why Not Here?

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Hey Oakland Police Wrongful Arrest In Atlanta Puts Flock Camera Use In Question There Why Not Here?

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After Clemson Beat Cal Football Golden Bears OC Jordan Somerville Blasted For Pulling JKS On 3rd Dn

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After Clemson Beat Cal Football Golden Bears OC Jordan Somerville Blasted For Pulling JKS On 3rd Down

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Michael Penix Proves He’s Right QB For Atlanta Falcons In Blow-Out Of Green Bay Packers

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Michael Penix Proves He’s Right QB For Atlanta Falcons In Blow-Out Of Green Bay Packers

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Haley Admits She’s Trying To Kill Bill On Beyond The Gates Then Gets Arrested As She Points The Gun

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Haley Admits She’s Trying To Kill Bill On Beyond The Gates Then Gets Arrested As She Points The Gun

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Now TellZennie.com Or ZennieReport.com User Can Post Any Tell To Facebook, Threads, Or Twitter

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Now TellZennie.com Or ZennieReport.com User Can Post Any Tell To Facebook, Threads, Or Twitter

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Now TellZennie.com Has A New “Video Tell” Comment System By Zennie62Media, Inc.

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Now TellZennie.com Has A New “Video Tell” Comment System By Zennie62Media, Inc.

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NY Giants QB Jameis Winston In For Injured Jaxon Dart, Not Prepped By Giants Coaches To Start

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NY Giants QB Jameis Winston In For Injured Jaxon Dart, Not Prepped By Giants Coaches To Start

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Conflict Of Interest? Oakland Coliseum JPA Exec Gardner Sold Muni Firm To Loop Capital In 2011

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Oakland Coliseum Executive Director Henry Gardner is well-regarded for his work as Oakland’s first black city manager. From 1981 to 1993, Henry Gardner built Oakland into a city considered one of the best managed in America. Gardner is considered by many, including this Oakland blogger, as a high-integrity man who makes sure that all of the “I’s” are dotted and the “T”‘s are crossed in negotiations with all types of parties from labor lawyers to sports team owners. A person so well regarded as Henry Gardner would not expect to leave out a detail of high importance in a situation like the Oakland Coliseum Sale to The Oakland Acquisition Company / African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG). But it appears that Henry sold his municipal investment banking firm Gardner, Underwood, and Bacon to the same Loop Capital that is part of the Oakland Acquisition Company and affiliated with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG). According to an article in the L.A. Business Journal of 2011: Loop Capital Markets, considered the nation’s largest minority-owned investment bank and brokerage firm, on Tuesday said that it acquired Los Angeles financial advisory firm Gardner, Underwood & Bacon LLC. Gardner, Underwood & Bacon specializes in advising municipalities and large utilities nationwide. Since 2002, it has served as a financial advisor on more than 250 transactions, totaling more than $30 billion, according to Chicago-based Loop Capital, which has nearly 20 offices around the country. “Loop Capital Markets’ acquisition of Gardner, Underwood & Bacon will help increase our firm’s presence in Los Angeles and the state of California,” said Loop Capital Chief Executive Jim Reynolds Jr. in a statement. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gardner, Underwood & Bacon’s principals and staff will honor existing contracts and eventually transition from financial advisory assignments to become part of Loop Capital’s public finance investment banking team, Loop Capital said. And the article stopped there. But the person listed as the key contact for Gardner, Underwood & Bacon is none other than the same Henry Gardner that is the Coliseum JPA Executive Director today. It begs the question if Henry has been carrying the water for Jim Reynolds Jr by tipping him off to the AASEG matter, or getting Loop Capital involved in City of Oakland municipal finance opportunities. Loop Capital Markets plays two prominent and distinct roles in the municipal finance landscape of the City of Oakland: as a major municipal bond underwriting partner and as a direct private financier for the city’s landmark real estate development The $334 Million Bond Sale: In December 2025, the City of Oakland successfully issued $334 million in General Obligation (GO) bonds. Loop Capital Markets, alongside BofA Securities, acted as the co-managers under lead underwriter Siebert Williams Shank & Co. Loop Capital provides the core private financial backing for the Oakland Acquisition Company (OAC)—a joint venture with the local African American Sports & Entertainment Group (AASEG).Project Scope: In mid-2026, the city approved a massive $125 million deal to sell its 50% stake in the 112-acre Oakland Coliseum property to the group. Loop Capital is financing both the multi-phase acquisition and the eventual multibillion-dollar redevelopment plan. Now how Loop Capital got into these deals is explained by Jim Reynolds as happening because AASEG’s Ray Bobbitt contacted him. But suspiciously left out of this story is the connection between Henry Gardner and Loop Capital. Jim Reynolds had to know that Henry Gardner was running the Coliseum JPA. Right? Well, according to Gardner himself, no. Henry was kind enough to answer my email question to him in this way: I have nothing further to offer on this matter. I made a very public disclosure before the Oakland City Council when AASEG proposed bringing a WNBA league to Oakland and that Loop Capital would be the financing arm that I had previously worked for Loop Capital as a Managing Director. Since then I have made several public statements about my past relationship to Loop Capital. This fact is very well known. I have had absolutely no involvement with the negotiations regarding the purchase of the property, including as late as of today. I also made that point at the Board meeting last Friday. Everybody involved in the negotiations can attest to that. I had absolutely nothing to do with Ray Bobbitt bringing in Loop Capital and only learned about it after the fact. That was important because for all of the times he’s been before a mic, that information has not been put in the media. Now it is. Conflict Of Interest? Some say no, and Gardner’s openness in revealing the news supports that view. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/H8qPYEs

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Atlanta Falcons Bad Running Play A Draw Play For Bijan Robinson vs. Carolina Panthers

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Atlanta Falcons Bad Running Play A Draw Play For Bijan Robinson vs. Carolina Panthers 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/fvK9qeB

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SALE At Kroger’s Fayetteville GA Folgers Breakfast Blend Coffee $8.99 Down From $16.99 On Sat Sept 1

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SALE At Kroger’s Fayetteville GA Folgers Breakfast Blend Coffee $8.99 Down From $16.99 On Sat Sept 19 2026

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Fire Browns HC Todd Monken As Jaguars Up 24-0 At Halftime Deshaun Watson Has 45.4 Passer Rating

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Fire Browns HC Todd Monken As Jaguars Up 24-0 At Halftime Deshaun Watson Has 45.4 Passer Rating

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How The NFL Almost Built Coliseum City For The Oakland Raiders But Las Vegas Sands Made A Move

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How The NFL Almost Built Coliseum City For The Oakland Raiders But Las Vegas Sands Made A Move In May of 2015, the Oakland Raiders hosted a meeting at their Alameda Headquarters (where the Oakland Roots live now) that featured Raiders Owner Mark Davis, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, then-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, then-Raiders President Mark Badain, and NFL Business SVP And Stadium Point Person Eric Grubman. That meeting was pivotal because an artist rendition of a stadium for the Raiders at the Oakland Coliseum was shown. I later found that image online in the middle of one of my Raiders livestream shows and called the architect who created it, Dan Meis. Mr. Meis was nice enough to tell me that he could not reveal who his client was for the project. Having worked with the Raiders a number of times in the past – especially with the late Al LoCasale, the Raiders famed executive assistant and famed right-hand-man to Al Davis – I was aware of how the Raiders liked to work in-secret and behind the scenes. I was correct. What ultimately happened was that from that point and all the way up to the week before the March 27th, 2017 NFL Owners Meeting vote that would send the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tried to secure a deal via Eric Grubman’s representation for the League to buy all of the Coliseum land – the same amount that stands to be owned by the Oakland Aquisition Company aka African American Sports and Entertainment Group Today. In this livestream Zennie will fill in the blanks of what happened, and what is Oakland’s future and Las Vegas future. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://ift.tt/uQHMVae

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