Two nonprofits face more than $47,000 in fines over L.A. lobbying forms

The L.A. Times reports:

Two nonprofits could face fines totaling more than $47,000 from the city Ethics Commission for failing to accurately report how much they had spent on lobbying at City Hall.

Ethics Commission staffers have proposed a fine of $30,000 for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, an influential organization that has successfully pushed to raise wages for hotel and airport workers, and $17,500 for the Hospital Assn. of Southern California, a regional trade group for hospitals.

The Ethics Commission is scheduled to take up the proposed fines at a meeting next week. If approved, the $30,000 fine for LAANE appears to be the highest penalty that the commission has imposed for violations tied to lobbying disclosures, according to online commission records dating back to December 1992.


The Times reported a year ago that LAANE, a group allied with labor unions that has repeatedly won victories at City Hall, had failed to fill out key parts of city forms that are supposed to publicly reveal its lobbying activities.

Imagine that.