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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001009M?

$45K paid to 8 different vendors (the largest, MLS Parent Holdings LLC, received $22.6K) across 25 payments from January 29, 2026 to September 3, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

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

8 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $45K 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 INVESTIGATION

Approval records

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

Order dated January 28, 2026.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

MLS Parent Holdings LLC$23K · 9 payments
Frasco Inc$18K · 3 payments
Legal Support Network$2K · 4 payments
Cal Interpreting & Translations Inc.$1K · 4 payments
Marie H Kondzielski$500 · 1 payment
Bettercomm Inc$221 · 1 payment
Registrar-Recorder/County$123 · 2 payments
Underground Service Alert of Southern California$50 · 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 29, 2026January 27, 20262dA25-01892/MCGINNIS/111525-012026/BLACK$500
2February 25, 2026February 25, 20260d24STCV02806/C WILLIAMS/022526/O RUVALCABA$50
3March 5, 2026February 10, 202623d22STCV32710/COMBS/102825/SUN$3,750
4March 5, 2026February 10, 202623d22STCV32710/COMBS/100125/SUN$2,950
5March 5, 2026February 10, 202623d25STCV08154/OSORIO/111225/SUN$2,063
6March 5, 2026February 23, 202610d21STCV03784/MEJIA/122325/THAMM$300
7March 26, 2026March 20, 20266d24STCV32929 PARK / FRASCO CASE: 2074412-01WPL / ASSIGNMENT #A26-01588 / E JOHNSON-BROOKS 030525-0624$336
8April 21, 2026April 6, 202615d24STCV32929 PARK / FRASCO CASE: 2074412-01WPL / ASSIGNMENT #A26-01588 / E JOHNSON-BROOKS 0305-123125$17,032
9May 7, 2026April 16, 202621d23STCV21689/PEREZ/102925-111725/TICAS$4,156
10May 7, 2026April 16, 202621d21STCV03784/MEJIA/122025-010726/THAMM$3,176
11May 7, 2026April 16, 202621d24CMCV00489/TILLMAN/102825/SUN$1,594
12May 14, 2026April 16, 202628d21STCV03784/MEJIA/122425/THAMM$2,300
13June 17, 2026June 15, 20262d24STCV32929 PARK / FRASCO CASE: 2074412-01WPL / ASSIGNMENT #A26-01588 / E JOHNSON-BROOKS 0305-123125$462
14July 31, 2026July 21, 202610dMAY 2026 SERVICES$96
15July 31, 2026July 21, 202610dMAY 2026 SERVICES$27
16August 3, 2026July 24, 202610d25NNCV04242/GARVEY/051926/MIERA$221
17August 24, 2026August 7, 202617d22763/IBRAHIM/061826/SUN$2,281
18August 24, 2026July 16, 202639d25STCP04183/GAF/111225/RODRIGUEZ$693
19August 24, 2026July 16, 202639d21STCV03784/MEJIA/103025/THAMM$652
20August 24, 2026July 16, 202639d25STCP03583/COALITION/101725/MEEHAN$598
21August 24, 2026July 7, 202648d24STCV06011/NORA/043026/ARJANG$550
22August 24, 2026July 8, 202647dH5CJ20423/MYKHAILOV/051226/LOUTHIAN$300
23August 24, 2026July 15, 202640dH6CB30062/ZAHRA/061726/LOUTHIAN$300
24August 24, 2026July 16, 202639d22STCV38178/HUFFMAN/102825/MCGUIRE$110
25September 3, 2026August 4, 202630dH6AP00180/RUBEN/060826/LOUTHIAN$300

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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.