{"id":60108,"date":"2025-09-13T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/godfather-of-little-saigon-cases-ripple-through-san-jose\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:30:10","slug":"godfather-of-little-saigon-cases-ripple-through-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/godfather-of-little-saigon-cases-ripple-through-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Godfather of Little Saigon\u2019 cases ripple through San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s been a good month in court for a San Jose businessman dubbed the \u201cGodfather of Little Saigon,\u201d entangling a local councilmember, an embattled power broker, a Trump administration bigwig and suggestive Vietnamese aphorisms. Politically influential San Jose bail bondsman Hai Huynh has seen favorable turns in two dramatic courtroom battles in the last few weeks \u2014 one with District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan and another with once ally-turned-enemy David Duong, the Oakland recycling mogul and power broker with San Jose connections. Huynh appears close to advancing a defamation lawsuit against Doan, who painted Huynh as a dangerous criminal last…\u00a0<\/p>\n