Calls for Republican Orange County supervisor Andrew Do to resign are growing after FBI agents raided his home.
According to LAist, Do’s home, a home owned by his daughter and multiple other properties were raided in connection with an LAist investigation into millions of unaccounted tax dollars. According to CBS News, Do’s daughter Rhiannon, who works for a non-profit called the Viet America Society, is one of several people being sued by Orange County for allegedly embezzling more than $10 million of taxpayer funds.
Rhiannon Do, Viet America Society President Peter Pham and a few others allegedly used COVID-19 relief funds to purchase six properties, ABC 7 reports. The funds were originally meant to help food insecure seniors and to build a Vietnam War Memorial.
CBS News spoke to a neighbor of Rhiannon Do.
“We call it the ‘ghost house,'” a neighbor said. “They’re only here on Thursdays to take the empty trash cans out and they show up Friday to bring them in. They don’t live here. Nobody’s been here for a year and a half.”
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The Democratic Party of Orange County as well as other Orange County supervisors are calling for Andrew Do to resign, LAist reports. VIETRise and Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice have also called for his resignation.
“Residents continue to face skyrocketing rents, evictions, and homelessness, yet Supervisor Do used his position to divert taxpayer dollars towards million-dollar properties for his own family and friends,” the statement from both organizations said per LAist “Supervisor Do has failed the residents of his own District, including the working-class immigrants and refugees of Little Saigon.”
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Why can’t people see this was Andrew Do’s plot to retire with millons of dollars. He only brought his daughter in it because he could not trust anyone else with his plan to steal the money. They never had any intention to feed anyone, he planned this entire scheme himself. Remember all the dcms this guy got away with? Quit saying his daughters non profit. It is Do’s doing and let’s not forget this guy use to be a public defender and a DDA / Prosecutor and he knows what a conflict of interest is. He knows all the laws and his wife is the same, was a PD and DDA and now she is a judge. Go figure and they let their daughter do the this. Shameful.