meet with

Koerner’s house sits just west of Lake Avenue, where mountain and metropolis meet, with sweeping views across the valley and down to the sea.

Derek Hsieh, the head of the coalition of county unions, said at one point during negotiations, labor leaders were asked to meet with county lawyers involved in the settlement, so they could get details of how it had wrecked county finances.

Marlon Bland, 31, said he got $200 — half in cash outside the county’s social services office and the other half when he went to meet with lawyers from Downtown LA Law Group, or DTLA.

“As an adviser this would be totally inappropriate to meet with potential contractors.”

Generally, he said, a top decision-maker would not meet with a potential contractor, who would typically have to go through “numerous hoops” to even request a meeting that may well be denied.