A FEDERAL JUDGE will decide how much Andrew Do must pay (Shutterstock).

By Jim Tortolano
Orange County Tribune

Andy, can you spare $900,000?

On Monday a federal judge is expected to declare the amount of money that disgraced former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do must repay after his involvement in a scheme that cost taxpayers over $10 million.

ANDREW DO
(County of Orange photo).

Do, 62, a one-time Garden Grove City Councilmember, represented the First District on the county Board of Supervisors from 2015-2024 and was a prominent member of the Vietnamese community.

But that all came to an end when he pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge and his resignation in October 2024.

Prosecutors from the Orange County District Attorney’s office found that Do had accepted as much as $550,000 in bribes to steer up to $13.5 million in federal funds allocated to the county to the Viet America Society, a non-profit organization run by his daughter Rhiannon Do, then 19, to provide meals to elderly Vietnamese residents during the Covid-19 pandemic.

But little of the money went for its intended purpose, some of it going to buy a house for Rhiannon, now valued at around $1.3 million.

District Judge James Selna will decide the amount Do must pay; prosecutors are asking for $878,000.

He has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.