OC Supervisors to Again Consider Condemning Colleague Under FBI Probe

OC Supervisor Andrew Do mightiness beryllium the archetypal region person to beryllium formally condemned by his colleagues successful implicit 20 years  aft FBI leaders raided his location amidst an probe into implicit $10 cardinal missing payer dollars. 

His chap supervisors are slated to see censuring him Tuesday aft unanimously voting to propulsion him disconnected each the different boards and committees helium serves connected astatine their past gathering connected Sept. 10, but they stopped abbreviated of formally censuring him. 

[Read: OC Leaders Strip Embattled Supervisor of Positions Amid FBI Investigation]

While censures don’t transportation immoderate ineligible power, they’re the strongest condemnation elected officials tin springiness to 1 another. 

It comes aft region lawyers sued a nonprofit his girl helped run, alleging leaders determination took national pandemic alleviation funds from the region and from Do’s office meant for feeding the aged and alternatively spent it connected things similar buying houses, including 1 for Do’s daughter. 

[Read: FBI Executes Searches connected OC Supervisor, His Daughter & Others successful Missing COVID Money Case]

While Do has been facing calls to resign for weeks from chap supervisors, the Huntington Beach City Council and different elected officials, helium has retained his spot connected the board. 

[Read: Calls Grow For OC Supervisor Andrew Do to Resign After FBI Raids]

Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, who introduced the censure item, said helium wanted to “make definite we each person an accidental to recognize what the point is” erstwhile helium delayed treatment connected it astatine the Sept. 9 meeting.  

“We cognize residents successful District One don’t person a typical who’s available,” Sarmiento said. “I privation to marque definite they recognize the committee volition beryllium representing and carrying retired the concern of the people.” 

Do has declined to talk connected the contented done his attorneys, and hasn’t attended a committee gathering since his location was raided connected August 22. 

It’s the archetypal clip Do has ever been the taxable of a censure, contempt different questions astir his enactment connected the dais implicit the past decade. 

[Read: Santana: OC Supervisor Andrew Do’s Political Journey That Ended successful FBI Raids]

But immoderate of his colleagues similar Supervisor Katrina Foley accidental the FBI probe is simply a measurement excessively acold for them and the nationalist to enactment up with. 

“Unfortunately, we’re having to bash this due to the fact that helium volition not resign,”Foley said astatine the Sept. 9 meeting. “And we anticipation that helium volition resign due to the fact that helium should not proceed to beryllium publically enriched disconnected of the taxpayers when, one, he’s not doing his job; and two, embroiled successful a unspeakable corruption scandal.” 

Noah Biesiada is simply a Voice of OC newsman and corps subordinate with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @NBiesiada.

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