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Malia Michelle Cohen › Form 700

Malia Michelle Cohen: 2024 Annual statement

Annual 2024
Controller · due 2025-03-03
Annual 2024
Commissioner, Coastal Commission · due 2025-03-03
Annual 2024
Board Member, Public Employees Retirement System · due 2025-04-01
Annual 2024
Board Member, Teachers' Retirement System · due 2025-04-01
Filed
2025-03-03 · signed 03/03/2025 04:51 PM
Source
Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (5 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Campaign money

1 source on this statement also gave to their campaign

Listed here and among the campaign's contributors in Cal-Access: Boxer and Gerson, LLP ($9,800).

What to check
  • Context: a donor who is also an employer, client or gift-giver is public on both records.
  • Whether the official later acted on matters involving them (votes, contracts, recusals).

Rule: Campaign donors also on the statement

How this rule works

Worth a look Lobbying

Lobbying reports name $119.90 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: MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION $119.90 (admission tickets).

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).
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION $119.90
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 B · Real property 2

PropertyValueRental income
838 Erie Street, Oakland, CA
Ownership/Deed of Trust
over $1,000,000$1,001–$10,000
A.P.N. Block 4591C, Lot 148, San Francisco
Ownership/Deed of Trust
over $1,000,000—

Schedule C · Income and business positions 1

SourceIncome
Boxer and Gerson, LLP
Partner · 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza #500 Oakland, CA 94612
over $100,000
Spouse's or registered domestic partner's income: Boxer and Gerson, LLP

Schedule E · Travel paid by others 1

Paid byTripAmount
Carnegie Mellon University · 501(c)(3)
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburg, PA 15213
Pittsburg, PA · 2024-10-31 to 2024-11-01 · 2024 Carnegie Mellon Alumni Awardee · Gift$658.92