Andrew J. Hinshaw

Who is Andrew J. Hinshaw?

Andrew Jackson Hinshaw was a United States Representative who, in 1977, was convicted of accepting bribes from the Tandy Corporation in his previous job as Orange County, California, assessor. In the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition. January 17,1981 Page 1 Part II Settlement Proposed in Tandy Case, Company Involved In Bribe Of Ex-Assessor Would Recover Funds. By Leo C., Wolinsky, Times Staff Writer Attorneys for the Orange County assessor’s office have tentatively agreed to settle a 10- year-old tax dispute, competing the last chapter in a bribery scandal that ended the career of former Rep. Andrew J. Hinshaw,.

The settlement, if approved by county supervisors, will return more than $200,000 to the Tandy Corp., owners of Radio Shack, the electronics firm that figured prominently in Hinshaw’s activates that the he served as Orange County’s assessor. Hinshaw’s 1976 conviction on two counts of bribery was based on allegations that he pressured Tandy into giving him free stereo equipment and contributing to his political campaigns to assure a favorable tax assessment on imports stored in the firm’s Garden Grove warehouse.