A funnier line in Hoa Van Tran’s financial disclosure
August 15th, 2008Actually, 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?
Tags: Hoa Tran financial reports, Hoa Van Tran, OC supervisor, VHN-TV
