LAist Exclusive: Millions of dollars of taxpayer money were earmarked to a nonprofit run off and on by the daughter of an Orange County supervisor with little to no public transparency. Nearly a year after LAist began investigating, Supervisor Andrew Do has resigned office and agreed to plead guilty to a bribery conspiracy that could send him to prison for five years.| LAist
The missing audits are for $4 million in taxpayer funding earmarked to provide meals for seniors and people with disabilities. LAist previously reported Do directed funding to the group without disclosing his family ties.| LAist
County records obtained by LAist show O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do directed an additional $6.2 million in taxpayer dollars to his 22-year-old daughter’s group without publicly disclosing the family ties.| LAist
Supervisor Andrew Do directed millions to the group, which was supposed to go toward feeding needy residents. “If they can’t prove then they should pay the money back,” Supervisor Katrina Foley told LAist.| LAist
New county letters obtained by LAist find that a nonprofit led by an O.C. supervisor’s 22-year-old daughter has failed to prove what it did with more than $4 million intended to feed needy residents during the pandemic.| LAist
The nonprofit Viet America Society has been at the center of a long-running LAist investigation.| LAist
Over the past year, Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do was involved in directing $3.1 million to a mental health center where his daughter, Rhiannon Do, was president.| LAist
A letter signed by the county's top attorney warns that he's prepared to take "any and all legal remedies" to ensure Viet America Society and Hand for Hand rebate millions of public funds and fully account for millions more.| LAist