Key findings
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- A nonprofit recently led by Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do’s 22 year-old daughter failed to submit federally-required audits showing how it spent millions in taxpayer funds, according to an interview and public records obtained by LAist.
- The required audits are tied to $4 million Do played a leading role in allocating to the nonprofit during the pandemic — money earmarked to provide meals for seniors and people with disabilities.
- LAist previously reported that Do voted, along with four other supervisors, to award millions to the same nonprofit without disclosing his family connection.
- Email records document that a county administrator raised “serious concerns” three years ago about plans to contract with the group, citing concerns about its legal status as a nonprofit.
- The OC Supervisors meet again Tuesday, Dec. 19. How to watch.
An Orange County nonprofit that got millions in pandemic relief funds earmarked to feed struggling seniors failed to submit federally-required yearly audits detailing how it spent that taxpayer money, according to public records obtained by LAist.
The organization has been led at various points over the last year by the 22-year-old daughter of O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do. Do voted to direct funds to the group without publicly disclosing his close family relationship. State law allows officials to knowingly award taxpayer money to their adult children — something the state Senate and two Assembly committees voted unanimously in 2016 to make a crime. But the bill never made it to a full Assembly vote.
The money was part of O.C.’s allocation from a wave of pandemic relief funding for local governments provided by Congress under the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA. County supervisors each got to…
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