For Immediate Release: June 25, 2019
Contact: Nancy Jackson (213) 978-1960
Entities registered to lobby City agencies reported receiving payments totaling over $13.5 million in the first quarter of 2019, according to a summary on today’s Ethics Commission agenda.
Reports filed by lobbying entities disclosed that clients paid a total of $13,512,472 to lobby the City during the first quarter. Of the 1,437 clients registered for the first quarter, the ten who made the largest aggregated payments for lobbying services are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paying Clients table to the right.
Payments from these clients totaled $1,532,075 and represented 11.3 percent of all payments by lobbying clients for the quarter.
The ten lobbying firms receiving the most client payments in the first quarter of 2019 are listed in the Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms table below. Together, these lobbying firms received a total of $6,545,113, representing 48.4 percent of all client payments received in the first quarter.
| Top 10 Highest Paying Clients | Total Payments Made in Q1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clear Channel (and Clear Channel Outdoor and iHeartMedia, Inc., Clear Channel Outdoor, and Affiliated Entities) | $204,948 |
| 2 | Crossroads Associates LLC | $185,022 |
| 3 | Jamison Properties, LP | $162,332 |
| 4 | Holland Partner Group (and Holland Partners) | $163,050 |
| 5 | La Terra Development LLC | $159,135 |
| 6 | Champion Real Estate Company | $149,080 |
| 7 | CIM Group (and 5929 Sunset (Hollywood), LLC and CIM Group, LP) | $145,857 |
| 8 | 900 Hilgard, LLC (and 900 Hillgard LLC, Eraj Basseri, Theodore Khalili) | $130,181 |
| 9 | Mitsui Fudosan America | $123,761 |
| 10 | AEG | $108,709 |
| Top 10 Highest Paid Lobbying Firms | Total Payments Received in Q1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Englander Knabe and Allen (including three6ixty) | $1,686,828 |
| 2 | DLA Piper LLP (US) | $ 902,247 |
| 3 | Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP | $ 784,280 |
| 4 | Craig Lawson & Co., LLC | $ 705,642 |
| 5 | Kindel Gagan | $ 460,597 |
| 6 | Glaser, Weil, Fink, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro, LLP | $ 421,352 |
| 7 | Ek, Sunkin, Klink & Bai | $ 415,000 |
| 8 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | $ 410,643 |
| 9 | Afriat Consulting Group, Inc. | $ 401,709 |
| 10 | Marathon Communications Inc | $ 356,815 |
Seventeen of the 622 first-quarter lobbying entities also reported fundraising activity totaling $155,449 for City campaigns, officeholders, and committees.
In addition to lobbying entities, two major filers reported activity totaling $43,647 in the first quarter of 2019.
The full summary on first-quarter lobbying and major filer activities is available on the Ethics Commission’s website. Disclosed information about lobbying entities and their clients can be searched through the Public Data Portal on the Ethics Commission’s website.
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The Ethics Commission was created by Los Angeles voters in 1990 to impartially administer and enforce the City’s governmental ethics, campaign financing, and lobbying laws.