Second phase of Orange County’s forensic audit reviewed 681 contracts worth $1.7 billion and found the warning signs around a supervisor’s daughter were raised early — and repeatedly ignored
Orange County officials were told in March 2023 that the daughter of then-Supervisor Andrew Do was running a nonprofit receiving county subcontract money. The concern was raised by the nonprofit’s own prime contractor, escalated through the Health Care Agency, and carried all the way to the county’s chief executive.
It was not formally investigated until November of that year, after a public records request and an LAist story on Rhiannon Do’s role made the arrangement public. (LAist published its report on November 22, 2023.)…