“Oral sex gives me good luck
when I gamble at the casino.”
–Actual excuse Little Saigon's
5-foot-2 and 110-pound Hung Van Phan gave to police in hopes of rationalizing
why as a 28-year-old he demanded and received blow jobs and intercourse from
two underage Orange County girls, one 14 and the other 15. Phan met the girls on the Internet while
posing as a 16-year-old. Over a period of many months, he committed 17 sex crimes in the case and was
sentenced to spend 17 years and eight months in a California prison. Phan
recently complained that his punishment is unfairly harsh. A state appeals court agreed. They reduced his sentence by, no joke, a single day and closed the file.
–-R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.