L.A. Controller Cites Fleishman for Overbilling

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LOS ANGELES Omnicom Group’s Fleishman-Hillard here overbilled the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power by $4.2 million from 1998-2003, according to an audit conducted by city controller Laura Chick.

“What my audit found are millions of dollars in bills that boggle the mind and defy common sense,” said Chick in a statement. “Fleishman-Hillard treated the ratepayers of Los Angeles like a cash cow, milking them for millions.”

Chick’s audit of the DWP’s contract with Fleishman-Hillard began in April.



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