(The Center Square) - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has prompted donors to spend $38 million on her favorite charities and third-party organizations, in some cases from donor companies who had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business before the city.
On multiple occasions, she did not disclose the outstanding business on transparency forms as required by state law.
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