Former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do Sentenced to 60 Months for Taking More Than $550,000 in Bribes
On June 9, 2025, a federal court in Santa Ana, a city in Orange County, California, sentenced former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Hoang Do to 60 months in federal prison. Do, 62, of Santa Ana, pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, after taking more than $550,000 in bribes and directing more than $10 million in COVID-19 relief funds to a charity associated with his daughter.
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna imposed the sentence, and a restitution hearing was set for August 11, 2025. Do served from February 2015 until his resignation in October 2024 as one of five supervisors of Orange County, which has an annual budget of about $9 billion; his First District included cities such as Garden Grove and Westminster.
Prosecutors said that, beginning in 2020, Do voted for and directed more than $10 million in COVID-19 funds to the Viet America Society, which was associated with his daughter, in exchange for more than $550,000 in bribes. From April 2021 to February 2024, the society paid a company more than $100,000 a month, about $3.804 million in total, and the company in turn paid one of Do's daughters, Rhiannon Do, $8,000 a month, about $224,000 in total. In July 2023, the company transferred $381,500 into an escrow account, and his daughter used the money toward a $1.035 million home purchase in Tustin; prosecutors said that money was a disguised bribe. Another of Do's daughters received a further $100,000.
In August 2024, the government seized more than $2.4 million from accounts of the Viet America Society and the company. Do resigned as supervisor, forfeited pension credits from the period of the conspiracy, and the Tustin property was forfeited. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, and Akil Davis of the FBI's Los Angeles office commented on the sentence; Spitzer said Do had turned Orange County into his own ATM.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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