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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE23001031M?

$15K paid to 4 different vendors (the largest, Kappa Laboratories, Inc., received $8.2K) across 21 payments from October 19, 2022 to June 15, 2023, charged to City Attorney / CPTF Grant 651 Prenatal Vitamins Investigation.

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

4 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $15K 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

CPTF Grant 651 Prenatal Vitamins Investigation

Budget line carrying the most money, of 4 this order is charged to.

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

Kappa Laboratories, Inc.$8K · 16 payments
Third Party Validation$5K · 2 payments
David C Steinberg$903 · 2 payments
Kelly Dobos$37 · 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
1October 19, 2022October 17, 20222dSPECIAL LITIGATION - CPTF GRANT 649 BABY FOOD 062222$4,844
2January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$925
3January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$925
4January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$925
5January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$925
6January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
7January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
8January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
9January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
10January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
11January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
12January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
13January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
14January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
15January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
16January 12, 2023December 28, 202215dSPECIAL LITIGATION - PRENATAL VITAMINS ASSG#A23-00178/072122/TUSAN$400
17May 31, 2023May 5, 202326dA2102698/BANANABOAT/101022-102822/KIRAKOSIAN$553
18May 31, 2023May 5, 202326dA2102698/BANANABOAT/010923/KIRAKOSIAN$350
19May 31, 2023May 31, 20230dSPECIAL LITIGATION - BANANA BOAT SUNSCREEN A21-02698 - KIRAKOSIAN$60
20June 1, 2023May 2, 202330dCPTF GRANT 611 HAIR PRODUCTS INVESTIGATION ASSIGN# A23-01920/ 021023 / TUSAN$645
21June 15, 2023May 22, 202324dSPECIAL LITIGATION - BANANA BOAT SUNSCREEN A21-02698 - TUSAN$37

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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.