Actually, it’s gotten so it’s not even funny any more.
Former OC supervisorial candidate Hoa Van Tran‘s financial disclosures sill have not figured out that there’s a problem with all the money and noncash contributions they get from VHN-TV.
Let’s go through this one slowly.
VHN-TV is also known as Viet Hai Ngoai TV. (“Hai Ngoai” means abroad, and there’s also a “Viet Abroad TV” but that’s not the same one.)
In Hoa’s reports for the period March 18 to May 17 — both the original and the amended — VHN is shown to have contributed a total of $2,600:
On page 5 (of the amended report here), there’s a monetary contribution of $1,000, received on May 7, 2008, from “Viet Hai Ngoai-Television, Corp.” (May 3 was the fundraiser for Hoa targeting Vietnamese, co-sponsored by Bruce Tran, the CEO of VHN-TV)
On page 19, there’s a non-monetary contribution of $1,600, received on March 31, 2008, from “VHN-TV.”
So, that’s a total of $2,600, a thousand above the legal limit.
In the latest disclosure here, covering the period from May 18 to June 30, VHN contributed again.
On page 9, there’s a non-monetary contribution from “Viet Hai Ngoai-Television, Corp” of $600, received on May 18, 2008.
So now the total is $3,200.
Everybody knows that calling the same entity by two different names doesn’t change the facts, right?
