Thy Vo/Voice of OC
A Fountain Valley man has been charged by The Orange County District Attorney’s Office with money laundering for Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen’s 2012 campaign for county supervisor.
Here, Senator Janet Nguyen poses with her husband and two sons. A Fountain Valley man by the name of Son Truong Nguyen has been charged for illegally reimbursing donors of $13,300 for Nguyen’s 2012 campaign. (Photo courtesy: http://nguyen.cssrc.us)
Between November 2011 and the end of January 2012, Son Truong Nguyen, 38, allegedly reimbursed a total of $13,300 to people who contributed to Nguyen’s 2012 election campaign committee. He is facing a $10,000 fine and one year in jail. The charges against him include 10 misdemeanor counts of unlawful contribution.
The court documents also cite evidence showing patterns of contributions from individuals with the same home address and employer; and individuals listed as ‘unemployed’.
Nguyen has defended the large numbers of unemployed people contributing to her campaign by saying that her own grassroots background and the nature of her heavily immigrant district has required her to rely on smaller contributions.
Son Nguyen will be arraigned on Nov. 24 at 8:30 a.m. in Superior Court, courtroom C-54, at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.
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http://voiceofoc.org/2015/11/da-charges-fountain-valley-man-with-campaign-money-laundering-for-janet-nguyen/
