Dear Sir :
Just to say thank you so much for your information's by which a Khmer war
refugee named Siphann Tith, a President of the Khmer Buddhist temple in Long Be
ch has been behind the bar for appropriated for his profit an important amount
of the money.
Siphann Tith had commit two crimes, the first is the deturment of funds public
punished by the human loi and second Siphann condemned by the religious Law and
namely the Buddhist law. After being purged by the human low in Jail' Siphann
Tith when he will die,he will go to hell.
In reading your article, the same problem came to my memory there were thirty
yeas ago in 975s a Khmer refugee named Chap Kuong had plaid the same game by
take away for his profit personal some important amount of money from Buthist
funds bu he was unable disturbed because at that time very few Khmer refugees
was unable to speak Anglis so Chap Kuong was safe and with the money,Kuong
bought a house without being disturbed by the others Khmer.
It sems to me the Khmer like to cheat to the others Khmers or theKhmer like to
kill the other Khmers like the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
am
October 21, 2008Judge holds pr esident of Long Beeach Buddhist temple in
contempt
Head monk Khoeun Pang lights candles for evening prayers. Observers in the
Cambodian community say the conflict is part of a larger factionalism,
including disputes over the designation of Cambodia Town in central Long Beach.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Siphann Tith, 44, was remanded to custody and held on $50,000 bail after
refusing to turn over the temple's financial records. Factions of Cambodian
temple have been wrangling over ownership.
October 21, 2008
By Joe Mozingo
Los Angeles Times
The president of Long Beach's oldest Cambodian Buddhist temple was held in
contempt of court Monday and taken into custody after he refused a court order
to turn over financial documents in a rancorous fight about who rightly runs
the temple.
Siphann Tith, 44, ignored repeated demands by Los Angeles County Superior Court
Judge Joseph Di Loreto to hand over the temple's assets to a court-appointed
receiver while the judge presided over a dispute between two factions of the
Cambodian community vying for control of the venerable institution.
The contention erupted in December, when monks and lay people demanded an
election of the temple's board of directors, as required by bylaws that had
been ignored for years. Tith agreed to an election, but the effort got bogged
down in further controversy over who could cast votes. The monks' faction went
forward with an election in January, voted in a whole new board and locked the
old board out.
The fight has sharpened divisions in the nation's largest Cambodian community.
Both sides claim the others are interlopers in Wat Khmer Vipassanaram, the
temple founded by survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in 1985.
The matter landed in court in February, and after an agreement by both sides,
Di Loreto appointed the receiver.
But when the receiver asked Tith for the temple's books, Tith said he didn't
have them anymore. He said the board dissolved the temple's nonprofit, the
Khmer Buddhist Assn., and transferred all the assets to a new organization --
an offshoot of a one-man church run by Johnny Rhondo, a business consultant in
Orange County.
Tith argued in court filings that the dissolution of the 23-year-old nonprofit
was inspired by Gautama Siddartha, the Buddha himself -- "who gave all his
wealth, property and even clothing, before he began the life that ultimately
led him to become Buddha." Tith claimed that death was the only way to Nirvana,
and so the nonprofit had to die for its spirit to get there.
Di Loreto did not buy it. "Wasn't the real reason you did that was to subvert
the settlement agreement you reached with the defendants in this case?" he
asked Tith earlier this month.
Di Loreto remanded him to custody and set bail at $50,000, but later revoked
bail.
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Tith Siphann taken into custody for contempt
President of LB Buddhist temple held in contempt
10/21/2008
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES—The president of a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Long Beach has been
held in contempt of court and taken into custody for refusing to turn over
financial documents in a fierce legal battle over who controls the temple.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Di Loreto had repeatedly
demanded that 44-year-old Siphann Tith turn over the temple's assets to a
court-appointed receiver.
Tith says he no longer has the temple's books, and that the board has dissolved
the nonprofit that ran it.
The judge didn't accept the argument and on Monday declared Tith in contempt.
Two factions of the Long Beach Cambodian community have been fighting over the
temple. A group of monks elected its own board in January after Tith had agreed
to an election but a dispute arose over who would be able to vote.
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