Los Angeles Watchdog Group Tracks Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in City Contracts

to the city attorney sitting in the row behind him.

The chairman tapped his wooden mallet twice on the desk, the sound flat and final.

“Thank you, Ms. Martinez, your time has expired for this segment of the hearing,” the chairman said.

By noon, the hallway outside the hearing room was crowded with television crews and local print reporters.

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