Jordan & Christine Kaplan
Jordan Kaplan is the CEO of Douglas Emmett, one of the largest corporate landlords on the Westside. His company owns Barrington Plaza, where two major fires killed one resident and injured others. Instead of adding fire sprinklers, Douglas Emmett pursued a plan to empty the building by evicting hundreds of rent-controlled households for “fire safety […]
Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles is a powerful landlord lobbying organization that fights tooth and nail against renter protections across the region. Backed by deep-pocketed real-estate owners, AAGLA pours money into campaigns and pressure efforts aimed at blocking rent control, eviction safeguards, and affordable-housing reforms. Their business model depends on keeping tenants vulnerable […]
Curtis Sanchez
Curtis Sanchez works at Afriat Consulting Group, one of Los Angeles’s most powerful land-use lobbying and political influence firms. Afriat represents major developers seeking zoning changes and fast-tracked approvals across the city. Sanchez’s campaign contributions raise questions about whether they are part of the firm’s strategy to buy access for its real-estate clients in City […]
Noel Minor
Noel Hyun Minor is CEO of The Brooklyn Companies, a real-estate investment and development firm. She previously worked as a land-use attorney and registered lobbyist at DLA Piper. Minor currently sits on the Los Angeles Convention & Tourism Development Board and the City’s Zoning Advisory Committee. Her career spans the full cycle of influence in […]
Denise Modrzejewski
Denise Modrzejewski has long served as the political fundraising arm of a powerful development-lobbying operation run by her husband, veteran City Hall lobbyist Chris Modrzejewski. When Los Angeles banned campaign donations from registered lobbyists in 2006, Chris stopped contributing—and Denise started. Since then, she’s poured tens of thousands of dollars into city campaigns, effectively continuing […]
Linda Berghoff
Wife of registered lobbyist Arnie Berghoff, the “dean of LA lobbyists”, runs a consulting and public affairs firm with deep ties to city officials and is pals with the notorious lobbying firm of Englander, Knabe and Allen. Arnie started out in the trash and medical waste business, moving from there to pimping for the oil […]
Kirsten Howland
Wife of John R. Howland, partner at the powerhouse lobbying firm Arnie Berghoff & Associates, the same firm that evolved from trash and medical-waste beginnings into a front for developers, landlords, Airbnb, Uber, billboard operators, infrastructure contractors, and tech interests. Through her marriage, Kirsten stands at the heart of a lobbying machine deeply embedded in […]
Ingrid Flintoft
Ingrid Flintoft funnels tens of thousands into City Hall campaigns. Married to lobbyist Thomas Flintoft at the powerful Kindel Gagan public-affairs firm, she serves as a convenient donor conduit when her husband’s influence network wants to push money into council races, even far outside their district.
Klink Campaigns Inc.
A strategic communications and public-affairs firm that openly specializes in “complex” and “controversial” issues, Klink Campaigns works behind the scenes to advance the agendas of powerful clients in heavily regulated industries like real estate, energy and healthcare. With lobbying activity on record and a business model built on shaping public policy outcomes, their contributions raise […]
CA Real Estate PAC
This powerful real-estate industry political-action committee bankrolls both major parties, acting as a dominant donor to the California Democratic Party and a top donor to the California Republican Party. Their dual-party influence ensures property and development interests have sway no matter which way the political winds blow.