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The Trump lobbyist and the sex tape : Behind Dominic Foppoli s combative response to sexual assault allegations
May 16, 2021
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Top: Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli, left, and lobbyist Robert Stryk have waged an aggressive campaign to save Foppoli s job. Bottom: An excerpt from a cease-and-desist letter sent by a lawyer for Windsor Town Council Member Esther Lemus to a criminal defense attorney representing Foppoli.Chronicle composite
With his political career on the brink of ruin amid multiple allegations of sexual assault, Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli turned to an old friend who had parlayed early loyalty and slight ties to Donald Trump into a multimillion-dollar lobbying business in Washington.
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Updated: April 8, 2021 4:01 a.m.
In the summer of 2019, Rose Fumoso left her home in southern France to intern at a Sonoma County winery, where the 21-year-old greeted customers in the tasting room and assessed the ripeness of grapes from the vineyard. As the season wound down in September, a friend invited Fumoso to a party celebrating the end of harvest.
There, she met the host: Dominic Foppoli, the mayor of Windsor.
A small town in the heart of Wine Country, Windsor has transformed in recent years from a sleepy neighbor of Healdsburg to a tourist destination. Much of that rise has been credited to Foppoli, a young winery owner whose political star and push for development have attracted outside investments in the community.