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See inside the OC home at the center of the Andrew Do corruption scheme
A Zillow listing showing the home purchased two years ago by Rhiannon Do that's now up for sale after it was seized by U.S. officials.
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The Tustin-area home at the center of the elaborate bribery scheme orchestrated by former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do is up for sale.
A Zillow posting of the home went up Sunday evening. Photos of the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home show a galley kitchen and one of the bedrooms with hardwood floors. The listing, which was also posted this week on Redfin and Realtor.com, says it has a new paint job and “space to add a private pool.”
There’s an open house on Sunday.
The kitchen of the Tustin-area home previously owned by Rhiannon Do.
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The backstory
Do was recently sentenced to five years in prison for receiving bribes in exchange for steering more than $10 million in public contracts to nonprofit groups that were supposed to use the money to feed seniors and provide mental health services.
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The bribes were routed through his adult daughters, according to Do’s plea agreement, including a down payment on a home for his youngest, Rhiannon Do. U.S. officials seized that home earlier this month, and several other properties and accounts associated with the corruption scheme.
The exterior of the home previously owned by Rhiannon Do on Candeda Place.
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The home’s value
Rhiannon Do purchased the home, located in unincorporated Tustin, for $1.04 million in July 2023. It’s now listed for $1.29 million — a nearly 25% increase. Realtor.com categorizes the surrounding ZIP code as a “hot market.” Real estate app Zillow estimates the value of nearby homes at between $918,000 and $1.6 million.
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Proceeds from the home’s sale will be returned to the county as part of the restitution for millions of stolen tax dollars.
How the government sells seized property
No trespassing sign is now in window of home formerly owned by Rhiannon Do, the younger daughter of disgraced former O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do.
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The U.S. Marshal’s Service manages and sells properties that have been forfeited to the government. They typically contract with local real estate brokers, in this case Marc Lebanoff, and price properties at fair market value. Lebanoff declined to comment for this story.
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