Audio files posted on the OC Register web site here shows Tyler Diep to be more knowledgeable of what he was doing than the image of an inexperienced new council member he made himself out to be on Vietnamese-language media.
He knew, for example, that his phone call to the police department was being recorded and so asked the watch commander to call him back instead of speaking on the police line.
The issue is whether and to what extent Councilman Tyler Diep interfered with police inspection on behalf of the owner of a Little Saigon area watering hole called Citryst (commercial vidcap shown above).
The Reg’s Deepa Bharath reports here that a review of campaign finance disclosure shows no contributions from Citryst or its owner Amanda Dung Nguyen. So at least we know that it’s not because of public campaign contributions that Diep woke up in the middle of the night to try to stop the police from inspecting the place.
Anyway, so on the night of February 6 – 7, 2008, three officers showed up to conduct a routine business check at Citryst.
But, when they got there, the owner Amanda Dung Nguyen told her security guard to bar the glass door and keep the cops from going in.
Later, when they were let in, there were no problems to be seen.
And then, Amanda Dung Nguyen called Diep.
Barely 20 later, at about 12:15 am on Feb. 7, Diep called the Westminster Police Department. He sounded upset, but alert enough to be careful about being recorded.
The conversation, shown on the Reg’s web site, went like this:
Police: Watch commander, Sgt. Vu, how may I help you?
Diep: Hi. What’s the… Who’s the watch commander tonight?
Police: This is Sgt. Vu I’m the watch commander right now. Can I help you sir?
Diep: Sgt. Vu, uhm. It’s, it’s Tim Vu right?
Police: I’m sorry? Yes. Timothy Vu, yes, yes sir.
Diep: It’s Timothy Vu.
Police: Your voice sounds really familiar, sir. Is this Councilman Diep?
Diep: Yes.
Police: How are you?
Diep: I don’t know. I have to get out of my bed at midnight. I, uhm, you, uhm, you have an officer named Officer Tran, on shift tonight?
Police: Yes sir we do. (pause on both ends) Is there, is there something that’s going on?
Diep: Uh, uhm, how do I say this. Uh. Now, by, I guess, policy, you have to log in this call when I called you.
Police: Yes sir. Everything on this line right here is being recorded.
Diep: (pause) Ok. I’m going to give you my cell phone number, can you give me a call back?
Police: If you like, sir, what’s your cell phone number?
Diep: <number bleeped out> Give me, hold on, give me… It’s midnight and I have to deal with this crap. Did you send anybody … Just give me a call back on my cell phone.
Police: You want me to call you right back, or give you a few minutes and then call you back?
Diep: Give me, give me 15 minutes and then call me back.
Police: I’ll call you back at 12:30 sir.
Before the time came for the sergeant to call Diep back, lo and behold Diep materialized in the flesh at the police station.
He was still so upset he couldn’t quite say what he wanted. One officer even offered to help:
Police: What is it you would like us to do?
Police: How can we help you?
Police: You seem frustrated.
<something the Bolsavik couldn’t make out>
Police: You seem upset.
Diep: I am.
Police: If you talk to us about it. If you don’t, we won’t be able to help you.
Diep: Why were your men out there again?
Police: Why were the officers out there?
Diep: Yeah.
Police: My understanding is they were just out there to do a routine business check. It’s a third or fourth cafe/restaurant they were at tonight.
The same bar, Citryst, has been rumored as the place where Councilman Andy Quach went to get himself stone cold drunk before hitting a car and crashing through a power pole and a concrete wall.
Quach claimed he was at West Coast Buffet, but the manager there said the group had left by 10 and Quach didn’t crash his car until near midnight. Not to mention that he was not driving away from West Coast at that time.
A_Q, membership cards are not hand outs from social security office. You need to apply them at Janet’s office.
Deepcon., you know the ritual……. mandatory over night training program at the Fifth Floor.
Deep Jungle King,
I am so impressed with your insight of how things work in the lord VAN’s underworld Kingdom of Little HCM city.
Night training is perfect for my nocturnal habits.
So, no need for DMV card right ?
Did you see AQ’s picture on his Citryst membership card ? Very happy ! ! !
Jung Kim, now you’re hurting Van’s feeling. Why would you want Janet to have our business? You stick with Van, he woudn’t forget you man. Didn’t you read that he almost got arrested for trying to help me while that idiot were doing the investigation on me. That’s Van, my man!
A_Q, No it was that imaginary golden $2.5 mil. bridge story got almost all of us in trouble.
All Janet’s staffers could have been served with a jail meal for long time..can you imagine without a pho soup for 5 years ?
Deepcon., how things really work at Fifth Floor?
Ask old snake Nick Le Cong …leaning against Janet’s chair with half of his tongue out.
JK,
A_Q and Deep Connection are one and the same. These people are just talking to each other. They are idiots just liek Art Pedroza.
Did you hear how Janet Nguyen voted today?
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/supervisor-janet-nguyen-votes-to-stop-the-countys-lawsuit-against-the-aocds/
Get a Life & Jung Kim are one and the same. They always speak when they weren’t spoken to. You guys must have been raised from the same hell hole. But I’m willing to mind your manner cause after all you are one of us, Van Tran’s slaves.
Tyler Diep and Andy Quach are running Westminster. The Viets have a majority city council. No matter what the TD and AQ haters may say now, they still run the show. May be that’s why they are being targeted. Most of the AQ/TD posts are just full of jealousy. The envy in bitterness are so thich that you can cut with a knife. But it doesn’t matter. These two guys still run the show in Westminster.
Yah, tell them Westminster Resident! We are still running the show in Westminster. How bad is it and how long, we don’t know but the point is we’re still running it whether any body like it or not. As long the Westminster people don’t get any smarter and I really hope they won’t then we are still running the show. Oh, I’m telling you I thank God everyday for stupid people. Like Tien Huynh wrote, the people deserve the leader they elected so I guess the Westminster people deserve ME!
And thanks god for dumb people who are too old and too ignorance to think otherwise.
A_Q face, Andy and Tyler have pleny of voter’s support because of their dedicated services to the community.
People do not have self serving low class ambition like you.
Go shave your own lady Janet’s legs please!
hey art, quit blogwhorring on here arent you always going on and on about how many visitors your site has? if thats the case why come here and shamelessly blogwhore like you do? and it doesnt look good now that you attack janet nguyen who you used to defend to the death even though anybody with half a brain knows she’s a filthy communist pig. you’re a little late for the party art. it only shows your ignorance. so stay on your blog art where censorship is the rule.
Jose S.,
Just trying to keep folks informed.
Many of us hoped Janet was a moderate. She turned out not to be. Shouldn’t you be happy I came to share your point of view?
We do moderate our posts. Most get posted. We reserve the right to delete posts that contain curse words.
Here is the latest re Janet, FYI:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/o-c-supervisor-janet-nguyen-says-she-did-not-have-a-dui/
Art Pedroza my baby, your blog’s general content is 99% lie with 1% story borrowed from any garbage sources on the street.
Art deletes any posts opposes his pro gay and anti viet view. …. not only curse words. This idiot hates all viet americans with official title.
Art Pedroza once ran for a Santa Ana council seat but lost due to lacking important endorsements . No friends for this lost soul!
Janet might have a big tiger face but not DUI …… Art must be smoking mota.
art, i never cussed in my posts so thats an obvious lie you banned me from the oj because i attacked janet. and as far as hoping janet might be a moderate it was easy to see she was all wrong. just the fact she went down to moran street and ate roast pig with the communists shows what she’s all about and even at that you defended her. you’re supposed to be smarter than that art. dont you attack prevatt for only having a high school education? well college boy you sure had janet wrong didnt you?. and keeping people informed and blogwhorring are two different things. i think being banned from the oj is an honor. and it’s just a matter of time before you turn on mill and lucas hopefully both will end up on a more respectable blog where censorship isnt the rule.
It’s very difficult to have your comments posted on Oj dong blog ….unless you agree with Art Pedroza’s twisted anti viet view.
If Quach and Diep are the best offerings the Viets have…..get it through your thick numscall head, Jung, nobody wants ANY Viets. We are stuck with them because of these very shady elections. (you know what I mean) What a blessing to see this Viet implosion. So nice to see the truth revealed. Again, loud and clear…YOU WANTED THESE GUYS IN OFFICE!? What the mofo were yous thinking. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong.
You’re right Jung Kim, you have to have self serving low class ambition like mine to be who I am. Just look at my booking picture, do you see any shame? I’m telling you, smart people have nothing to do with their times except blogging in here & attacking me for one stupid mistake. Why coudn’t they give me any credit for all those times that I was also drunk but still manage to make it home safely. I’d gladly to write a check to MADD if it’s going to make them feel better you know. Money is no problem for me, you saw what I did with my Mercedes right ? More than ever, I really need stupid people like you & Get a Life to be on my side. Thank you for your continuing support and may God reward you for all the things you have done for all of us in & out this forum. Take care your dog & yourself, I would hate to see any of you get run over by a stupid DUI. I promise to myself, if I ever get elected again I would propose a tougher law against drunk driving . . . and that’s a promise my friend !
lottaDope and A_Q:
Didn’t you get the memo? Andy Quach and Tyler Diep rule Westminster. You guys are on the short end. Actually, you are nothing and nobody cares about you. You have no influence and no say.
Like it or not, they are elected officials and they deserve all the credits. The more you cititicize them, the more you sounded like you are jealous and petty. Why don’t you run for office so that your opponents can hand your ass to you?
It’s real man, Tyler and Andy are your reps. People elected them into office. Doesn’t matter if you like or dislike. Nobody can change anything. Cut the dope and wake up. You’re swimming upstream and don’t even know it.
It’s funny to see Art Pedroza appears on all these idio’s names after my preaching against his cholo blog. Ha Ha Ha!
If Art Pedroza is the best latino community can offer…they are doomed! Oh wait, most of them are occupying our jail cells already!
Arturo, Ring the bell Ding dong Ding dong ……..when you run out of toilet papers in your jail cell.
I don’t criticize the fact that sorry hole ass Art Pedroza posting here with fake names other than his own…….. or spending most of his day reading Bolsavik Blog instead of his own unpopular gay blog oj.
There you are my man, deal or no deal either way those smart people are just bunch of losers . We all know there are more stupid people in Westminster than are the smart one so we have nothing to be affraid of. We are who we are and we keep doing the same stupid things one after another & still nobody can change anything. Too bad I don’t have another Mercedes Benz to crash but don’t worry I’d have another in no time. Those stupid business owners in Westminster like Amanda are just waiting to hand me their moneys for all the favors I have done for them. Just make sure you come by tonight to get more goodies, Dizzy just got another shipment from her brother. I’m telling you, we are like the Godfathers in Little Saigon.
Wow! and all these smart ones use to live in Santa Ana with Art Pedroza before they were all shipped out to state prison. How impressive!
No, stupid! All the smart ones are moving out of Westminster, Garden Grove & Midway City. For sure, they don’t deserve someone like us to represent them.
Ha Ha Ha! Art Pedroza is pissed. What a loser… stupid = cholos idiot!
A_Q
So much rancor and hate. Why? Didn’t get enough last night or what? Don’t look in the mirror too often or you’d be depressed all day.
Jung King, rancor & hate . . . what cha talking about man? There’s more love in me than you can handle. I love anybody, especially short & stupid. Why need the mirror when I have my booking picture in my wallet. Damn, I looked good !
Score another one for Hugh Nguyen!
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/chris-norbys-assemblyman-mike-duvall-endorses-hugh-nguyen-for-clerk-recorder/
Also – Jose. S, I think that our previous editor, Sarah Spinosa, banned you. If that happened I apologize. You are welcome to post at the Orange Juice. Please do so – and if you want to join our blog team email me at apedroza@earthlink.net. You would make a terrific addition to our team. Thanks.
A_Q
Get a life loser. Don’t you have anything better to do than fraudulently assume the identity of a DUI councilman so that you can harrass the bloggers? Your mama oughtta keep you under lock and key.
Get a Life babe, you sounded like a broken record. Take your own advice & get a life or it might be taken away one day by a DUI. Also, tell your mama I say ” hi “, I hope she wise up & not getting high whenever her guys say ” good bye “. I sincerely hope you’ll have a better life than your mother even though you too are very much a like.
Get A Life, this idiot’s mama (A_Q) sould have stayed virgin.
A her sorry son wants to become a DUI jack donkey.
donkey= ass
Arturo, good job/posting on Hugh.
I’m sorry Jung Kim but all the b*tches won’t even go for you even if I decided to stay virgin. Now here’s a quiz for you, try to find the differences between you & the donkey’s ass ? ………………. the answer is : there’s no differences. Ha Ha Ha
Get a Life is right, A_Q. You need to be spanked and whipped at the public square. YOU MIGHT LIKE TO BE WHIPPED -:) You are a hard headed idiot. You mother must surely hate you because you don’t listen very well.
A_Q, I was talking about joe mama staying virgin…not you idiot.
You have been smothered with milky slime… at least few times by my dog already.
Jung Kim or who ever you are, just for our good Korean name sake, please come out to state that you are not a Korean….Please….
For God sake, you are just a Vietnamese, and a lowly viet at that. Definitely, not a Korean.
Heyyyyyy neighbor, did you missed me ? Since the accident, Dizzy has keeping a close eyes on me so I coudn’t do anything or going over to see you. Hearing you mentioned all those whipping & spanking is getting me sssoooo hot & *****. Keep the back door open, I’ll try to sneak out tonight ! Don’t worry about your mother, being single for so long it must been hard on her.
Jung Kim, just keep your dog away from me. You & him always jumping up & down licking whenever I’m around, it’s very creepy man !
A_Q, Keep your little third leg inside of your pants next time……. my dog is addicted to it’s small size.
We know, we know . . . that’s why it love you so . . . heck, even my 3 yrs old nephew’s is bigger than yours. Come to think of it, you couldn’t blame Janet for thinking for herself. Gosh, just look at who’s she marrying to now. You have to say she’s a woman who knows what she want !
a white meat?
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