{"id":64532,"date":"2026-03-25T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-congressional-race-grapples-with-integrity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:30:05","slug":"silicon-valley-congressional-race-grapples-with-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-congressional-race-grapples-with-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley congressional race grapples with integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity has become the theme of Silicon Valley\u2019s hottest congressional race between Rep. Ro Khanna and his challenger, Ethan Agarwal, who\u2019s ripped into Khanna over family ties to stock trading. Yet questions are emerging about Agarwal\u2019s own past as a tech company founder \u2014 dogged by millions of dollars in legal debts, defaulted payments and alleged unpaid business rent. Court records show Agarwal \u2014 who previously lived in New York \u2014 personally confessed in 2020 to owing $2 million to Universal Music Group over a licensing dispute with the digital fitness company he founded, Aaptiv. Later filings show Agarwal failed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-congressional-race-grapples-with-integrity-ro-khanna-ethan-agarwal\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity has become the theme of Silicon Valley\u2019s hottest congressional race between Rep. Ro Khanna and his challenger, Ethan Agarwal, who\u2019s ripped into Khanna over family ties to stock trading. Yet questions are emerging about Agarwal\u2019s own past as a tech company founder \u2014 dogged by millions of dollars in legal debts, defaulted payments and &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}