Tan Nguyen, who made national headlines in 2006 when he ran against Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana for allegedly lying to investigators about a mailer that was sent out admonishing Latino immigrants not to vote.
At the time, Nguyen’s response to the intense blowback from the mailer was varied, mutable and often bizarre.
Written in Spanish, the mailer used the letterhead of the anti-illegal immigration group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform. However, once the group denied involvement, focus began shifting onto Nguyen.
The Orange County Register established a link to his campaign after noticing that the bulk mail registration number was the same for his campaign.
The indictment says that Nguyen “knowingly misled state investigators who were investigating the circumstances surrounding the mailing of the letter.”
We’ll have a full story up within the hour, and a link to it here. In the meantime, keep reading for links to our previous stories.
- Nguyen’s campaign office raided
- Many parties pitch tents in Nguyen’s opposition camp
- State investigators focus on Nguyen campaign
- Nguyen probe expands to LAPD officer
- Democrats point finger at GOP
- Nguyen refuses to quit
- Arrests pledged over Nguyen mailer
- Letter of the law sought
- Nguyen denies knowing of mailer:
Barbara Coe and CCIR are exonerated. She and her group are about playing fair and responsibly, as well as honestly. She must be relieved that Tan Nguyen is finally going to pay for making duplicate and false copies of her letterhead and engaging in criminalbehaviour.
Tan Nguyen is a criminal. He deserves no less than 6 years in the slammer. Let this be a warning to other Vietnamese politicians and wannabes who have the same mindset as this to be jail bird.
CCIR is an officially recognized hate group. Barbara Coe is their President.
Barbara Coe was sweating bullets when state investigators showed up at her door asking her about the letter that was later found to have been written by Nguyen’s staff. Nguyen, being the candidate, knew about the letter and arranged for the payment of the mailing to 12,000 legally registered voters in Orange County.
Nguyen thought it would be a great idea to put the letter on stationery with CCIR’s name on it. That way no one would think he was involved.
Tom Fuentes was Nguyen’s senior campaign advisor!! He clearly would have had to advised him re the letter. WOW!
Where did Nguyen get the over $400,000 for his campaign in 2006? The Orange County Republican Party? Scott Baugh? Michael Schroeder? Tony Raukaukus?
I think the voting rights prevailed. Our community will never allow any attempt to deprive people of the basic rights.
About the use of the letterhead from the California for Immigration reform still it is questioning to me. Why did they didn’t launch a lawsuit against Tan? If somebody uses the letterhead from the OC Register I bet your newspaper will do something about it.
Benny wrote: “Why .. didn’t CCIR launch a lawsuit against Tan? If somebody uses the letterhead from the OC Register I bet your newspaper will do something about it.?”
Because CCIR liked Nguyen’s message AND state investigators were already going against Nguyen. By the time the state and feds get through with Nguyen, he will be penniless AND hopefully in federal prison. (LMAO!)
Now if they would only go after the other amoral crooks in Orange County who are in the Republican Party!!! Like Michael Schroeder, Tom Fuentest and the rest of the gang!!
All illegal mexicans should be deported.
The only reason CCIR was labeled a hate group was it was the SPLC that labeled them that. The SPLC is a liberal hate group in its own right. I think Tan did the right thing because it is a common tactic by the open borders groups to inlist illegal aliens to vote in elections that they are not legally supposed to vote in. Legal is a word they all seem to ignore anyway. I’d vote for Tan again.
Here is an example from a study taken showing the numbers of illegal non-citizens voting in the 2006 elections and the regions.
– 127,000 to 235,000 in New York;
– 57,000 and 113,000 in New Jersey;
– 87,000 and 209,000 in Illinois;
– 476,000 to 700,000 in California;
– 146,000 and 232,000 in Florida;
– 161,000 to 333,000 in Texas; and
– 41,000 to 86,000 in Arizona.
I rest my case
Who did the study?