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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE24001004M?

$175K paid to 35 different vendors (the largest, Veritext LLC, received $46.9K) across 268 payments from September 1, 2023 to August 12, 2024, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

35 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $175K 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

Litigation

Budget line.

Approval records

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

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 35 vendors on this order.

Veritext LLC$47K · 65 payments
Deposition Solutions LLC$13K · 26 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$11K · 13 payments
Katherine L. Waki$5K · 1 payment
Regal Court Reporting Inc$4K · 10 payments
Janet a Hirsch$4K · 7 payments
Aptus Court Reporting LLC$4K · 6 payments
FTR LTD$4K · 12 payments
Watson CSR Inc$3K · 3 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$2K · 5 payments
M & C Corp$2K · 4 payments
Liticourt Corporation$1K · 3 payments
Claudia Amezcua Hagopian$1K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 268 payments totalling $175K, an average of $654. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

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.