County leaders are calling for the heads of Orange County’s public health plan for the poor to release the results of an investigation into former county supervisor Andrew Do, who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and is currently serving five years in prison. 

Do served as the chair of CalOptima’s board for years, but resigned after state regulators fined him $12,000 for pay to play politics before he pleaded guilty last year to accepting bribes to reroute county contracts. 

[Read: Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do Faces $12,000 State Fine Over ‘Pay to Play’ Politics]

This is the first time CalOptima leaders have met since they’ve had a chance to read the report, which has been kept secret by agency staff and required any board members who want to review it to sit in with staff. 

While a discussion on the report isn’t listed on the agenda for today’s 2:00 meeting, board members are set to meet behind closed doors to discuss “anticipated litigation” with their legal counsel. 

CalOptima staff have refused to release the report, citing its creation by an outside law firm, and have also refused to name the firm who created it or what materials they were allowed to review.  

Do was a major leader at the agency for years, overseeing the appointment of current CEO Michael Hunn and the hiring of his former aide Veronica Carpenter to be a new chief of staff despite having less than a year’s experience in healthcare administration at the time. 

He also pitched having county supervisors take over the agency back in 2017 before it got blocked by state legislators. 

[Read: OC Supervisors’ Attempted Takeover of CalOptima Health Plan Appears Dead]

While Isabel Becerra, the current chair of the board, tried calling a special meeting last month to talk about the report, it never materialized. 

Four of the five county supervisors have called on CalOptima to release the report, including Vicente Sarmiento, who sits on the board. 

“I will be advocating for the release of the findings to the public,” Sarmiento said in a statement last month.  

Supervisor Doug Chaffee, who also sits on CalOptima’s board of directors, declined to comment. 

Supervisors Katrina Foley and Don Wagner, who do not sit on the board, also called for the report to be released in separate statements. 

“The public deserves transparency regarding all investigations of public corruption,” Foley said in a Wednesday statement. “I support the release of the report as soon as appropriate.”

Supervisor Janet Nguyen called for the release of the report, noting that even as an alternate board member she hasn’t been allowed to read it, and said the public deserves to know what’s been found. 

“No doubt about it, Andrew Do is Orange County’s most corrupt politician,” she wrote in a Sept. 17 statement. “I am calling on CalOptima to make this report public immediately so all taxpayers can view how their money was spent.” 

Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter. Contact him at nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org.