Known name variants used in public records and court filings — investigators should query all variants in OC Superior Court, DRE, and Wells Fargo records:
Note: USPS Tracking #9534914882764149935944 — the cashier's check package signed at BHHS Springdale Marina — was signed "H.H." This signature should be compared against Le's known handwriting. The "H.H." initial pattern is consistent with the name variants above.
Hanson Le did not come into this tenancy through any standard property management agreement. He entered as a favor to a neighbor — specifically, through his residential proximity to Thao Tran (Phat Tran's daughter) on the Sand Dune Lane corridor in Huntington Beach. A month after his introduction as property manager, Tran sent communications indicating he still needed to find a property manager — suggesting Le's role was informal, undocumented, or predated any formal engagement.
The People Search database confirms Hanson Le has appeared in OC Superior Court approximately 23 times. This is not a first-time actor making an innocent mistake. This is an experienced individual who knows the system, knows what records are kept, and knew exactly what he was doing when he routed a tenant's rent payments to his personal Wells Fargo account using a corporate signing platform.
This is one of the most technically precise fraud indicators in the entire case. The lease/contract instrument used to route rent payments to Le's personal account bears signatures executed on two different electronic signing platforms within the same envelope sequence. This is not a standard document workflow.
On April 28, 2024, Le transmitted Authentisign/AccuSign envelope #46CC8725-F703-EF11-96F5-6045BDD68161 from his BHHS corporate email address to four signatories. Buried in the payment clause was a term directing all rent payments to his personal Wells Fargo account #3312942937 — not a licensed broker trust account, not an escrow account, a personal bank account in his name alone.
Total funds documented as routed to Le's personal account: over $10,350 (security deposit + rent payments). California law requires security deposits to be held in a segregated real estate trust account (CC §1950.5). Personal account routing is a facial violation and the mechanism of the fraud.
California Business and Professions Code §10138 requires all trust funds collected by a licensed real estate agent to be deposited into the broker's trust account — not a personal bank account. Le is a licensed real estate agent (DRE #01358448). He collected tenant funds. He directed those funds to his personal Wells Fargo account #3312942937.
Penal Code §506 makes embezzlement by a fiduciary a criminal offense. A licensed real estate agent collecting tenant funds has a fiduciary duty to deposit those funds in the required trust account. The diversion to a personal account is embezzlement under PC §506 and a DRE violation under BPC §10138.
USPS Tracking #9534914882764149935944 confirms delivery of the cashier's check (Payment 26 of 37, sealed, made payable to Phat Tran) to BHHS Springdale Marina. It was signed for as "H.H." — initials consistent with Hanson Le's name variants — on May 30, 2024.
The 3-Day Notice cure window was active at the time of delivery. Le cannot cash a check not made payable to him. But he had physical possession of it and concealed its receipt. Tran texted Gasio during the cure window confirming awareness of the situation. The check was never returned to Gasio. It was never presented as payment to Tran. The eviction proceeded on the fabricated claim that no payment was received.
The Authentisign/AccuSign envelope containing the payment routing clause was introduced or relied upon in OC Superior Court proceedings. If that instrument was presented under DocuSign authentication headers — or if the metadata discrepancy between Anna Ly's DocuSign open/close actions and Le's AccuSign signature was not disclosed — then a falsified instrument was filed with the court.
Additionally, the lease instrument itself contained a payment term routing funds to a personal account — a term inserted by a licensed real estate agent using his corporate credentials, in violation of his fiduciary duty, designed to deceive both the tenant and the property owner about where funds were going. Filing this instrument in a court proceeding while knowing it contained a fraudulent payment clause is a violation of PC §115 (filing false instrument) and PC §132 (offering false evidence).
Le entered the property — having introduced himself as property manager — and personally inspected the habitability defects. He made written promises to remediate conditions. Specifically:
Le's written promises of habitability remediation, combined with his personal introduction of the contractor who performed the abandoned repair, and his subsequent departure and silence, constitute fraud by false promise under PC §532 and unfair business practice under BPC §17200.
When contacted by HBPD investigators, Hanson Le invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This invocation is not itself a crime. However, in a civil and administrative context, the invocation of the Fifth Amendment by a licensed real estate agent when asked about the handling of client funds and a cashier's check is highly significant. It establishes that Le believed his truthful answers would incriminate him. Combined with his departure from BHHS following the cure window events, his non-response to certified mail, and his failure to respond to the DRE complaint, the Fifth Amendment invocation is a pattern of consciousness of guilt.
Le's entry into this transaction was not arm's-length. His Known Associate relationship with Thao Tran — Phat Tran's daughter, who lived in the Sand Dune Lane corridor directly adjacent to subject properties in the network — establishes the pre-existing personal relationship through which he was introduced "as a favor." The conspiracy charge rests on the coordinated scheme:
A 1-pound certified mail package containing the cashier's check, three letters, two contracts, and multiple physical images of what is now considered evidence was delivered simultaneously to:
Ethos Properties received all of this material and never responded. Their silence, combined with BHHS Legal's subsequent "Stop contacting us. Goodbye." response, establishes a coordinated institutional non-response to documented fraud evidence. Each organization that received the package and took no action became a participant in the ongoing concealment.
Independently of criminal proceedings, Le's conduct constitutes multiple grounds for DRE license revocation. DRE Pre-Complaint PC #1-26-0304-002 was received February 22, 2026 and acknowledged by investigator Graciela F. Macias on March 6, 2026. The following BPC sections are directly implicated:
| BPC Section | Conduct | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| §10176(a) | Fraud, misrepresentation, or dishonest dealing in any real estate transaction | Payment routing clause · check concealment |
| §10176(i) | Acting for more than one party without knowledge of all principals | Routing rent to personal account while acting as Tran's agent |
| §10177(b) | Conviction of a crime substantially related to qualifications / duties | If criminal charges proceed — automatic DRE action |
| §10138 | Commingling trust funds with personal funds | WF #3312942937 — personal account used for client funds |
| §10177(g) | Demonstrated negligence or incompetence | Abandoned habitability repair · dishwasher promises unmet |
Every level of the BHHS corporate chain received notice of Le's conduct. Every level chose silence or active dismissal. BHHS Corporate Legal's response — "Stop contacting us. Goodbye." — issued while receiving a copy of the disputed cashier's check during active trial proceedings — converts this from a rogue-agent scenario into a corporate enterprise decision. Under California Corporations Code §309, officers and directors who receive notice of agent fraud and fail to act bear personal liability.
| # | Evidence Item | Source / Location | Criminal Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-01 | Authentisign Envelope #46CC8725-F703-EF11-96F5-6045BDD68161 — April 28, 2024 5:36 PM PDT — hansonle@bhhsCAprops.com | BHHS Authentisign / DocuSign servers — subpoena both | Wire fraud · false instrument |
| E-02 | Wells Fargo account #3312942937 — all deposits April–June 2024 | Wells Fargo — federal subpoena · FDIC-insured institution | Bank fraud · embezzlement |
| E-03 | Wire Confirmation #OW00004382456864 — $5,000 — April 19, 2024 | Gasio Wells Fargo Premier Checking account ...0732 | Payment made — denied in court |
| E-04 | USPS Tracking #9534914882764149935944 — signed "H.H." at BHHS May 30, 2024 | USPS records — USPIS subpoena | Check received — concealed |
| E-05 | Sealed cashier's check — "Payment 26 of 37" — payable to Phat Tran — never cashed | Physical evidence held by Gasio — available for forensic print analysis | Concealment · obstruction · prints |
| E-06 | Tran text: "Sorry I did not know you paid to the Hanson account" | SMS — timestamped — in evidence portal | Owner admission — personal account confirmed |
| E-07 | Tran text: "Both Hanson and myself are in a lot of trouble" | SMS — timestamped — exhibit 1042 | Joint culpability admission |
| E-08 | Le written promise of dishwasher repair — written communications | Exhibit 1008 — written installation commitment | Fraud by false promise |
| E-09 | Home Depot Order #WM68385688 — $1,011.52 — Whirlpool dishwasher May 16, 2024 | Home Depot records / Gasio purchase documentation | Unreimbursed — habitability fraud |
| E-10 | Rosas phone call — "moonlighting · they all do it · normal to grab contracts from US mail" | Gasio personal account — contemporaneous notes | Supervisory admission · systemic fraud |
| E-11 | BHHS Legal: "Stop contacting us. Goodbye." — issued during active trial proceedings | Written record — corporate correspondence | Corporate enterprise knowledge · obstruction |
| E-12 | Ethos Properties — received 1-lb package, certified check copy, contracts, evidence images — no response | USPS certified delivery confirmation | Concealment — institutional participant |
| E-13 | Le's Fifth Amendment invocation — HBPD interview | HBPD records — IA file AI 26-0003 | Consciousness of guilt |
| E-14 | People Search — Hanson Le — 23+ OC Superior Court appearances — multiple name variants | CheckPeople.com January 2025 — available for law enforcement verification | Prior court history — not first-time actor |
| E-15 | DRE Pre-Complaint PC #1-26-0304-002 — received Feb 22, 2026 — investigator Graciela F. Macias | DRE Sacramento — active proceeding | Parallel agency action — coordinate |
| E-16 | Sand Dune Lane proximity — Le (8401 Bluff Cir HB) / Thao Tran (20002 Sand Dune Ln HB) — top Known Associate | People search · public records · OC Recorder | Conspiracy — pre-existing personal relationship |
| E-17 | Le brought David Ly (Ly Construction) into property — same contractor who submitted fraudulent carpet invoice | Exhibit T16 — LY Construction assessment notes | Conspiracy — renovation planned during tenancy |
Hanson Tri Le is not a peripheral figure who made administrative errors. He is the operational center of the financial fraud that enabled this wrongful eviction. He used his BHHS corporate credentials and the Authentisign platform to execute a wire instrument routing tenant funds to his personal bank account. He signed for the cashier's check at BHHS during the cure window and concealed it. He made written habitability promises he never fulfilled and brought in the same contractor who later submitted the fraudulent renovation invoice. He invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned. He left his employer. He has not responded to any agency, any certified mail, or any legal process.
The evidence required to open a criminal investigation is documentary, verifiable, and available. The wire transmission metadata exists on BHHS corporate servers and DocuSign/Authentisign records. The bank account is a Wells Fargo account at a federally insured institution — accessible by federal subpoena. The cashier's check is sealed and available for fingerprint analysis. The USPS tracking record is a federal document. The text admissions are timestamped.
Dennis Rosas's statement that agents intercepting mail payments is "normal" and that "they all do it" is not a defense for Le — it is an admission that BHHS Springdale Marina operated as an enterprise in which this conduct was known, tolerated, and systematic. That makes this a RICO-predicate pattern, not an isolated incident.