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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE23001016M?

$268K paid to 12 different vendors (the largest, National Economic Research Asso. Inc., received $226.4K) across 24 payments from January 12, 2023 to August 24, 2023, charged to City Attorney / Consumer Protection Penalty.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

12 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $268K above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Consumer Protection Penalty

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Paid from

City Atty Consumer Protec Proc

restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

National Economic Research Asso. Inc.$226K · 5 payments
Itamar Simonson$13K · 1 payment
Veritext LLC$6K · 4 payments
Kelly Dobos$6K · 1 payment
Egelman International LTD$5K · 1 payment
David C Steinberg$4K · 3 payments
Jilio-Ryan, Hunter & Olsen Inc$2K · 2 payments
Consumer Product$2K · 1 payment
Eric S Abrutyn$2K · 1 payment
Lasr LLC$289 · 2 payments
Case Anywhere LLC$264 · 2 payments
Privacy-City Attorney$123 · 1 payment

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dA2102698//061522-070822/TUSAN$2,197
2January 19, 2023December 29, 202221dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$123
3February 1, 2023January 20, 202312d19STCV15742//042222/MAHMOOD$2,440
4February 1, 2023January 20, 202312d19STCV15742//042722/MAHMOOD$2,025
5February 2, 2023January 10, 202323dA2102698//061322-062122/TUSAN$2,100
6February 2, 2023January 10, 202323dA2102698//080422-082022/TUSAN$1,225
7February 2, 2023January 11, 202322dA2102698//120322120522/TUSAN$788
8February 3, 2023January 17, 202317d19STCV15742/HRBLOCK/052919/MAHMOOD$157
9February 3, 2023January 17, 202317d19STCV15742/HRBLOCK/053119/MAHMOOD$132
10March 1, 2023February 14, 202315d19STCV15742//042822/MAHMOOD$774
11March 23, 2023March 18, 20235d//030922/BOSTROM$923
12April 4, 2023March 31, 20234dJCCP5067/TURBOTAX/050122-073122/BOSTROM$144
13April 5, 2023March 31, 20235dBC689320/CALCARTAGE/100122-123122/MUNSEY$120
14April 21, 2023April 4, 202317d//122222/SPROULE$2,240
15June 15, 2023May 22, 202324dSPECIAL LITIGATION - BANANA BOAT SUNSCREEN A21-02698 - TUSAN$6,082
16June 21, 2023May 24, 202328d21STCV33770/H&R BLOCK/110422/STEVEN SON$12,750
17June 22, 2023June 8, 202314dA23-02425/TILTING POINT MEDIA INV./040622/C TUSAN$4,999
18July 12, 2023June 13, 202329d19STCV15742/HRBDIGITAL/100422/BOSTROM$1,394
19July 12, 2023June 13, 202329d19STCV15742/HRBDIGITAL/101722/BOSTROM$1,031
20August 24, 2023August 10, 202314dCV19-04933/H&R BLOCK/080922/S STEVENSON$82,686
21August 24, 2023August 10, 202314dCV19-04933/H&R BLOCK/080922/S STEVENSON$78,963
22August 24, 2023August 10, 202314dCV19-04933/H&R BLOCK/122222/S STEVENSON$39,914
23August 24, 2023August 22, 20232dCV19-04933/H&R BLOCK/080922 /EXPENSE DEDUCTED - $48.64 NO MEAL RECEIPTS$14,724
24August 24, 2023August 10, 202314dCV19-04933/H&R BLOCK/122122/S STEVENSON$10,070

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Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.