Andrew Do took the payments in exchange for directing millions in COVID funds to a charity associated with his daughter, the Justice Department said.
A California county supervisor has agreed to plead guilty to accepting more than $550,000 in bribes since 2020, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
“Mr. Do had a duty to act in the best interest of the citizens of Orange County,” Ryan Korner, the special agent in charge with the inspector general’s office for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said in aAndrew Do steered more than $10 million in COVID-related funds to the Viet America Society charity, the DOJ said.
“Elected officials have a responsibility to implement programs and policy that will benefit all the people they serve. Their role is not to squander money, solicit bribes, or to steer funds to organizations or persons, wherein a coordinated effort allows those funds to make their way to family members or friends,” Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said.
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