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Thomas Umberg › Form 700

Thomas Umberg: 2024 Annual statement

Annual 2024
Senator, State Senate · due 2025-03-03
Filed
2025-02-28 · signed 02/28/2025 04:35 PM
Source
Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (11 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Travel payments

Lists $8,879.97 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Pebble Beach Resort, Pebble Beach CA ($4,480.72, Governor's Cup Foundation, Inc.), Norwary, EU ($4,005.74, Tides Advocacy/Smart Justice CA EIN 94-3153687), Sacramento, CA ($195.89, CalChamber). 5 of 5 are listed as gifts.

What to check
  • Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
  • Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.

Rule: Travel paid by others
“Travel payments from third parties (not your employer).”Form 700 (2025/2026), Types of reportable interests ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Worth a look Lobbying

Lobbying reports name $303.50 in gifts to them in 2024 from 1 source this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2024, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE $303.50 (*speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit).

What to check
  • Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
  • What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
  • Whether it's on the statement under another name.
  • That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).
CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE $303.50
  • 2024-05-08 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at SAFE Credit Union Convention Center $195.89 (of $31,343.55 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
  • 2024-11-13 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa $26.95 (of $7,008.22 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
  • 2024-11-13 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa $80.66 (of $20,971.21 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement
“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Schedule A-1 · Investments (under 10%) 20

NameBusinessValue
AmazonProduct Sales and Distribution$2,000–$10,000
AmgenBiopharmaceutical$2,000–$10,000
AppleTechnology$10,001–$100,000
DisneyEntertainment$2,000–$10,000
EbayOnline Sales$2,000–$10,000
GoogleTechnology$10,001–$100,000
ImmunoGen Inc.Medical Research$2,000–$10,000
LillyPharmaceutical$2,000–$10,000
MetaTechnology Platform$2,000–$10,000
MicrosoftComputer Technology$10,001–$100,000
PaypalMoney Exchange$2,000–$10,000
PfizerMedical Supplies$2,000–$10,000
RepligenManufacture Biological Medications$10,001–$100,000
Siga TechnologiesRetail$2,000–$10,000
StarbucksCoffee$10,001–$100,000
TeslaAutomobiles$10,001–$100,000
VerizonTechnology$2,000–$10,000
WalmartRetail$2,000–$10,000
MetaTechnology Platform$2,000–$10,000
Coinbase Global, Inc.cryptocurrenty exchange platform$2,000–$10,000
acquired 2024-12-01

Schedule A-2 · Businesses & trusts (10% or more) 2

Bohica Advisors LLP Sole Proprietorship · from the PDF

Consulting · 405 N. Broadway, Suite B Santa Ana, CA 92701 · Owner

Value $0–$1,999 · gross income $0–$499

Umberg Zipser LLP Partnership · from the PDF

Law Firm · 1920 Main Street, #750 Irvine CA 92614

Value over $1,000,000 · gross income over $100,000

Schedule D · Gifts 6

FromGiftsTotal
CA Dem Party · from the PDF
1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2024-01-28 · breakfast/lunch · $60.92
$60.92
CA Dem Party · from the PDF
1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2024-02-27 · Stanford Mansion & Capitol Bowl · $139.52
2024-02-28 · Stanford Mansion · $38.40
$177.92
CA Dem Party · from the PDF
1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2024-04-09 · Caucus Lunch · $25.66
$25.66
Mike McGuire for State Senate, 2022 · from the PDF
312 Clay Street, Suite 300, Oakland, CA 94607
2024-02-28 · Engraved Stanley Tumbler · $58
$58
CalNonprofits · from the PDF
870 Market Street, Suite 609, San Francisco, CA 94102
2024-06-05 · Lunch · $46.19
$46.19
Bill Dodd for Lt. Governor · from the PDF
5445 Madison Ave., Sacramento, CA 95841
2024-12-01 · welcome dinner for Senators · $168.05
$168.05

Schedule E · Travel paid by others 5

Paid byTripAmount
CalChamber
1215 K Street, Suite 1400, Sacramento, CA 95814		Sacramento, CA · 2024-05-08 · made a speech / panel · Gift$195.89
Tides Advocacy/Smart Justice CA EIN 94-3153687
2500 Steiner Street, #8, San Francisco, CA 94115		Norwary, EU · 2024-09-08 to 2024-09-13 · acting as an intermediary on behalf of JK Irwin Foundation, EIN 56-2678107 Smart Justice CA & Amend 2024 Norway Delegation International Prison Delegations Flight 2000.00 Hotel Breakfast: 1336.89 9/8-Dinner at Sentralen Mat 364.94 9/10- Dinner at Lille Herber: 337.32 9/11-Dinner at Vaertshuset Baerums Verk: 242.90 9/13-Dinner at Ekeberg: 392.54 · Gift$4,005.74
CalChamber
1215 K Street, Suite 1400, Sacramento, CA 95814		Anaheim, CA · 2024-11-13 · CalChamber-Public Affairs Conferenc Sen. Umberg was on the Anti-Trust Panel · Gift$107.61
Governor's Cup Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 1308, Woodland, CA 95776		Pebble Beach Resort, Pebble Beach CA · 2024-07-18 to 2024-07-20 · July 18-20, 2024 Accommodations at Spanish Bay Inn -3138.96 Evening Receptions -1225.76 Lunch x2-116.00 · Gift$4,480.72
CA Associaiton of Health Plans
1415 L Street, Suite 850, Sacramento, CA 95814		Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, CA · 2024-02-09 · Health Policy Education Sen. Umberg on panel on Health Care in his district · Gift$90.01