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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001004M?

$435K paid to 42 different vendors (the largest, Veritext LLC, received $71.7K) across 514 payments from October 20, 2025 to July 27, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

42 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $435K 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.

Order description, as published:

VARIOUS TRANSCRIPTIONS

Approval records

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

Order dated July 10, 2025.

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 42 vendors on this order.

Veritext LLC$72K · 75 payments
Steno Agency Inc$62K · 95 payments
Deposition Solutions LLC$27K · 40 payments
FTR LTD$21K · 19 payments
MLS Parent Holdings LLC$14K · 15 payments
Focus Litigation Solutions$11K · 13 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$10K · 12 payments
Watson CSR Inc$9K · 13 payments
First Legal Buyer Inc$7K · 8 payments
Ben Hyatt Corporation$6K · 4 payments
Janet a Hirsch$5K · 8 payments
Aptus Court Reporting LLC$4K · 4 payments
Regal Court Reporting Inc$3K · 7 payments
Talty Court Reporters Inc$3K · 3 payments
Sotka Inc$2K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 514 payments totalling $435K, an average of $846. 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.