>> NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE MAN, SEEMINGLY AT THE CENTER OF THE FBI'S POLITICAL CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION THAT RAIDED THE MAYOR OF OAKLAND'S HOME LAST WEEK. NOW IT'S GETTING MORE INTERESTING. A SHORT SEARCH ON ANDY DUONG'S INSTAGRAM PAGE SHOWS HE FREQUENTLY POSTS WITH PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES IN THE POLITICAL WORLD, INCLUDING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM, MULTIPLE PICTURES WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB BONTA AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY AND FORMER AG JAVIER BECERRA, THE LIST GOES ON, INCLUDING SOME IN OTHER STATES LIKE NEVADA AG AARON FORD. ACCORDING TO AN INVESTIGATION BY THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION, WHICH IS A STATE OVERSIGHT ARM, ANDY DUONG WAS THE TRUE SOURCE OF AT LEAST 93 CONTRIBUTIONS TO MULTIPLE LOCAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES WHEN HE CREATED A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LAUNDERED SCHEME TO BENEFIT HIS FAMILY OWNED COMPANY, CALIFORNIA WASTE SOLUTIONS, OR ORS, FALSELY USING THE NAMES OF INTERMEDIARIES OR STRAW DONORS. INSTEAD OF DISCLOSING AS THE TRUE SOURCE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS. ACCORDING TO THE FPPC, THIS IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION WITH EVIDENCE SUGGESTING IT STARTED AROUND 2016 THROUGH AT LEAST 2018, AND INCLUDED SOME CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WERE FRAUDULENTLY CONCEALED FROM THE PUBLIC. ALL BUT ONE OF THE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE'S TARGETED WERE IN JURISDICTIONS WITH LOCAL CONTRIBUTION LIMITS, AND THE INVESTIGATION FOUND DURING THIS TIME, THE CITY OF OAKLAND PROHIBITED CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CONTRACTORS PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE CITY, REQUIRING CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. YET DOCUMENTS SHOW MANY OF THE TARGETED COMMITTEES WERE CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL. FOR EXAMPLE, XIANG TAO RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL IN 2018, RECEIVED $9,900 FROM DUONG THAT THE FPPC ALLEGES WAS LAUNDERED THROUGH 13 DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THE REPORT ALSO ALLEGES THAT LARRY REED RECEIVED $5,600 THAT WAS LAUNDERED THROUGH EIGHT DIFFERENT ENTITIES. DAN KALB RECEIVED $4,200, ALLEGEDLY LAUNDERED THROUGH SIX DIFFERENT PEOPLE OR ENTITIES. REBEKAH KAPLAN ALLEGEDLY RECEIVED $3,500, LAUNDERED THROUGH SEVEN PEOPLE, AND FORMER COUNCILMEMBER DESLEY BROOKS RECEIVED MORE THAN $18,000 OVER TWO CAMPAIGN CYCLES , ALLEGEDLY LAUNDERED THROUGH 24 PEOPLE. FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER ABEL GUILLEN, WHO IS NOW CALIFORNIA'S DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, RECEIVED $4,200, ALLEGEDLY LAUNDERED THROUGH 12 DIFFERENT PEOPLE. >> SHADY, SHADY, UNETHICAL, YOU KNOW, THEY YOU KNOW, THEY YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY TEND TO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY TEND TO OPERATE LIKE, IN THIS SORT OF KIND OF BRIBERY SYSTEM. YOU KNOW, TO BUY INFLUENCE AND TO INFLUENCE AND, AND THEY DO, YOU KNOW, THEY GET A LITTLE MORE SOPHISTICATED HERE IN AMERICA BECAUSE WE HAVE MORE RULES. >> SHIRLEY GEE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY. SHE SAYS SHE GOT TO KNOW THE DONGS AT A GALA FUNDRAISER FOR VIETNAMESE AMERICAN SENIORS IN THE, GALA. >> HE JUMPED UP AND SAID HE WAS GOING TO PLEDGE $1,500 TO THE SENIORS. AND, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY CLAPPED AND, YOU KNOW, THOUGHT THAT WAS WONDERFUL. AND THEN WHEN WE WENT TO COLLECT FROM HIM, YOU KNOW, WE SENT MULTIPLE EMISSARIES, YOU KNOW, TO HIM WITHIN THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY AND SAID, HEY, WHAT'S THE DEAL? YOU PLEDGE THIS MONEY, IT'S FOR THE SENIORS. WHERE IS IT? YOU KNOW, AND HE AT FIRST, YOU KNOW, TRIED TO DO THAT HIDING GAME. AND THEN WE SENT EMISSARIES TO TRY TO COLLECT AND THEN, BUT IN THE END, HE STIFFED US. >> ACCORDING TO AN ABC7 NEWS ANALYSIS OF STATE AND FEDERAL DATA, BOTH ANDY DUONG AND HIS FATHER, DAVID, HAVE MADE CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALING MORE THAN $250,000 TO 28 CANDIDATES ACROSS CALIFORNIA, MORE THAN 300 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS, TOTALING OVER $2 MILLION, WERE SENT TO CANDIDATES OR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING DONATIONS TO THE CAMPAIGNS FOR REPRESENTATIVES ERIC SWALWELL, ADAM SCHIFF, BARBARA LEE AND EVEN FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. A CAMPAIGN SPOKESPERSON FOR CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF WROTE. THE I-TEAM FOLLOWING PUBLIC NEWS REPORTS THE CAMPAIGN WILL BE GIVING $26,000. THE TOTAL CONTRIBUTION RECEIVED FROM MR. DUONG AND HIS FAMILY TO A LOCAL NONPROFIT HELPING ADDRESS HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS. WE REACHED OUT TO THE OTHER PUBLIC OFFICIALS DIRECTLY, BUT HAVEN'T IMMEDIATELY HEARD
