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What has the City spent on Black Market - City Attorney?

$36K across 177 payments, July 24, 2017 to May 21, 2026 — 48 purchase orders and 13 vendors, run by City Attorney.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: BLACK MARKET - CITY ATTORNEY

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 9 fiscal years across 48 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$36KTotal spent
48Purchase orders
13Vendors
23%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$5K
FY2018-19
$8K
FY2019-20
$8K
FY2020-21
$419
FY2021-22
$6K
FY2022-23
$2K
FY2023-24
$2K
FY2024-25
$712
FY2025-26
$3K

Who was paid

9 payments

11 payments

2 payments

19 payments

PCMG$2K

3 payments

3 payments

4 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 48 purchase orders booked to this line.

2 payments · November 9, 2021 to November 9, 2021

3 payments · August 8, 2019 to August 16, 2019

3 payments · September 29, 2025 to May 21, 2026

3 payments · July 17, 2018 to July 17, 2018

4 payments · August 11, 2017 to August 11, 2017

1 payment · July 31, 2019 to July 31, 2019

2 payments · November 17, 2017 to November 17, 2017

2 payments · May 13, 2022 to June 24, 2022

2 payments · November 21, 2019 to November 21, 2019

5 payments · June 6, 2024 to June 14, 2024

3 payments · October 30, 2017 to October 30, 2017

5 payments · February 26, 2019 to February 26, 2019

1 payment · March 5, 2020 to March 5, 2020

1 payment · March 5, 2020 to March 5, 2020

1 payment · July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

1 payment · July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

6 payments · September 12, 2018 to September 12, 2018

13 payments · September 9, 2021 to September 14, 2021

1 payment · June 24, 2019 to June 24, 2019

4 payments · March 1, 2019 to April 10, 2019

7 payments · August 30, 2022 to August 30, 2022

27 payments · June 14, 2019 to June 14, 2019

4 payments · August 6, 2019 to August 6, 2019

4 payments · July 20, 2018 to July 20, 2018

4 payments · February 26, 2019 to February 26, 2019

2 payments · September 13, 2017 to September 13, 2017

1 payment · January 7, 2019 to January 7, 2019

4 payments · June 4, 2018 to June 4, 2018

1 payment · April 17, 2025 to April 17, 2025

2 payments · September 17, 2019 to September 17, 2019

10 payments · June 14, 2018 to July 20, 2018

1 payment · July 24, 2017 to July 24, 2017

1 payment · April 7, 2021 to April 7, 2021

4 payments · July 24, 2017 to July 24, 2017

1 payment · April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2018

2 payments · June 5, 2024 to June 5, 2024

3 payments · July 20, 2018 to July 20, 2018

5 payments · February 22, 2019 to February 22, 2019

6 payments · December 11, 2018 to December 11, 2018

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.