A former Southern California county supervisor was sentenced June 9 to five years in federal prison for accepting $550,000 in bribes and steering more than $10 million in COVID-19 relief funds to an organization affiliated with his daughter.
Andrew Hoang Do, 62, who was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2015, resigned in October 2024 as part of an agreement to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.
“Elected officials have a sworn duty to put their constituents’ interests ahead of their own,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in a press release after the sentencing. “Public money intended to assist aging and ailing pandemic victims instead filled the coffers of Do, his family, and insiders.”…