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Federal prosecutors said the Viet America Society gave Rhiannon a job, and paid her as an employee, after her father voted in favor of the lucrative contracts.

Calling his conduct “despicable” and his attempt to minimize his crimes “absurd,” prosecutors said that of the more than $10 million he steered to the Viet America Society, much of it supposedly for meal programs for the elderly and disabled, only $1.4 million went to that purpose.

In connection with the Do case, the U.S. attorney’s office announced charges last week of bribery against the founder of the Viet America Society, and for wire fraud against a man affiliated with another Orange County relief group.

In a scathing rejection of his newest work, Bernard Quint, art director at Life magazine, wrote on Nov. 28, 1967, “From looking at your drawings, I would gather that only American G.I.’s are guilty of poking their daggers into Christ-like Vietnamese and obviously Hanoi and the Viet Cong are blank pieces of paper which symbolize innocence.”

The ink on his crown — a large number 6 — signifies his status as the sixth member of a small but increasingly visible community: a local band of barbers and tattoo artists who call themselves Viet Chicanos.