Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do, facing calls to step down amid investigations into a nonprofit he directed millions in COVID relief funds to, has sold a house he owned in Westminster, making it unclear whether he lives in the district he was elected to represent.
The sale last month was recorded a week after federal investigators raided a North Tustin house also owned by Do and his wife, a superior court judge.
Do’s voter registrar information has been declared confidential and not to be disclosed by the Orange County Superior Court, so the public can’t see what address Do listed when he filed to run for the office. The North Tustin house is outside of Do’s district.
The Westminster house is inside his district. The three-bedroom home on Irene Way was sold to Hung D. Le for $990,000 on Aug. 30, records show. A Hung Le serves as Do’s policy advisor.
Do and Le did not respond to requests for comment.
Following investigators’ raid of the North Tustin home, and not the Westminster home, Fifth District Supervisor Katrina Foley called on Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate whether Do lives in the First District.
Do has faced calls to resign from community members, including the Huntington Beach City Council, and from his colleagues on the board, Foley and Second District Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, who have raised questions about his ability to effectively represent constituents. Do has missed the last two Board of Supervisors meetings and he was removed from his board and committee assignments by the other supervisors on Sept. 10.
The county filed a civil lawsuit on Aug. 15 alleging Viet America Society and some of its leadership had “brazenly plundered” COVID relief money Do had directed to the nonprofit from his discretionary funds for a nutrition gap program. Do has been criticized for not disclosing that his daughter held leadership roles with the nonprofit, though that is not a violation of county policy or state law.
Do is not named in the county’s lawsuit and federal authorities have not said what their investigation entails.
The lawsuit alleged six properties throughout the county were purchased by some members of Viet America Society’s leadership between 2021 and 2024 using taxpayer dollars. One of those homes was purchased by Do’s daughter, Rhiannon, a third-year law student at UC Irvine, for $1.03 million in July 2023, according to real estate documents.
Federal and county agents on Aug. 22 raided the North Tustin home owned by Do, as well as his Huntington Beach office, the house purchased by Rhiannon Do and the home of Viet American Society President Peter Pham.
As First District county supervisor, Do is legally required to live within the northwestern part of the county he represents, which includes Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach and Westminster.
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