Oh the diggies to be had here!

10103 Morris Blvd, Steilacoom WA (Ketron Island)

Nicole (E?)(R on tax documents in pb) Pham and husband James Porter

Preliminary search shows name affiliations for Pham in multiple states, 27 businesses. WA LLCs seem like a good lead, given the location of the $1.1 million estate in question.

For SURE we have The Lemon Grass Restaurant.

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/the-lemon-grass-restaurant-inc.html

The registered address has quite a few businesses also using that address, and Pham is the registered agent for quite a few of them as well…

https://www.bizapedia.com/addresses/2012-harbor-view-dr-nw-olympia-wa-98502.html

Couple of interesting names pop out at me:

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/carlyle-court-llc.html

https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/almaden-valley-florist-llc.html

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/pham-and-porter-llc.html

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/nicole-and-brothers-llc.html

The LLC that reads like an address if entered as one is associated with Les Blue's Musical Company in Aberdeen, WA.

We have a fair number of businesses registered within the past couple of years. Restaurants, real estate, florists. Is it another example of laundering and shell corporations or is this couple just diversified investors? Landlords? Why are they the registered agents for all these businesses if they are only landlords though? Same agents – I lean more and more towards loop capital. The Washington real estate market is an overly inflated joke, to be sure.

Nicole has brothers, Hung and Dao listed as company contacts for a couple of those businesses.

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/lemon-grass-properties-llc.html < formed in 2005, “administratively dissolved”, but we have some apparent airspace connections with the company governor?

https://www.bizapedia.com/people/william-drinkard.html

Any Anons with a LinkedIn? Because I came up against the account wall but James Porter comes up as an Accountant with the Washington State Treasurer's Office (possibly former), and the blurb stated “my wife, Nicole Pham”. Profile picture he's holding a guitar (maybe makes more sense of the Les Blue's business?) and he's also listed as an entrepreneur.

The one info page lists Hoa T Nguyen as a relative.

https://www.bizapedia.com/people/washington/hoa-nguyen.html

https://www.bizapedia.com/wa/duong-and-nguyen-inc.html Nguyen in Bellingham?

Registered agent listed as Charlie Dang income Tax, Inc.

https://charliedang.com/

And take a look at all the companies that come back registered to THAT address. Hours of digging here…

https://www.bizapedia.com/addresses/1215-s-main-st-seattle-wa-98144.html

Lots of nail salons. Is this like an immigrant business licensing and accounting company for FOBs? And are we looking at fraud/laundering/perhaps trafficking? Is that going too far?