LLC's registered or owned by Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin "Marcus" McInerney
| Submitted | Aug. 5, 2022 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: John Kennedy
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
The full names and records of all the LLC's owned or registered by a one Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin (aka"Marcus") McInerney in the State of California between 1995 and current date, August 2022. The above individuals currently reside in Los Angeles, California.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
David Kagen
From: California Secretary of State
Thank you for contacting the California Secretary of State’s office. This automated response indicates that the Secretary of State’s office has received your email. Please see contact information below for assistance with your request:
Business Entities – Corporations
Inquiries regarding filings for corporations, including nonprofits
Email corporations@sos.ca.gov<mailto:corporations@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #2 - 1
Business Entities –LLC’s, LP’s, and Other Business Entities
Inquiries regarding filings for limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and other business entities (excluding corporations)
Email otherbusinessentities@sos.ca.gov<mailto:otherbusinessentities@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #3 - 1
Business Entities – Status or Records Request
Status of a submitted filing, or a business entities records request
Email BEStatusInquiry@sos.ca.gov<mailto:BEStatusInquiry@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #2 – 3, or Option #3 – 3
Statements of Information
Inquiries regarding statement of information filings for limited liability companies, corporations, common interest developments, publicly traded companies or penalties.
Statementofinformation@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Statementofinformation@sos.ca.gov>, Penaltywaivers@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Penaltywaivers@sos.ca.gov>, or call (916) 657-5448, Option #1
Notary
Inquiries regarding notaries public or apostilles
Email NotaryMail@sos.ca.gov<mailto:NotaryMail@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3595
Trademarks and Special Filings
Inquiries regarding trademarks, domestic partnerships, immigration consultants, and other special filings
Email SFmail@sos.ca.gov<mailto:SFmail@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3984
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
Inquiries regarding Uniform Commercial Code filings, including financing statements, judgment liens or attachment liens
Email UCC_support@sos.ca.gov<mailto:UCC_support@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3516
Elections
Email Elections@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Elections@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-2166
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Constituent Affairs
Office of Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
From: California Secretary of State
Dear Mr. Kagen,
Thank you for contacting the Secretary of State to request copies of business entity records listing Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin (aka"Marcus") McInerney.
The Secretary of State does not file records relating to ownership of the business entities registered with our office. However, we have identified 25 pages of records that list, in some capacity, the names of the two individuals you have requested.
The California Public Records Act permits the California Secretary of State to collect statutory fees for the cost of producing copies of its records, which must be remitted at the time the records are requested. The statutory fees for reproduction of the type of records that you have requested are $1.00 for the first page, and $0.50 for each additional page. However, during the current COVID-19 situation, we are able to provide attached plain copies of these documents at no charge.
We hope this information is helpful to you. If you have questions about this or another matter related to the Secretary of State, please contact us again.
Sincerely,
Constituent Affairs
California Secretary of State
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August 5, 2022
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
The full names and records of all the LLC's owned or registered by a one
in the State of California between 1995 and current date, August 2022. The above individuals currently reside in Los Angeles, California.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
David Kagen
From: John Kennedy
To SOS, Constituent Affairs,
Thank you for the records. However, I know for a fact that these docs included in your response are incomplete. There are numerous more of business entity (LLC) records registered to Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin (aka"Marcus") McInerney of Los Angeles, CA. Please conduct further research for these records associated with the two names mentioned above.
Thank you for your attention in this manner.
From: California Secretary of State
Thank you for contacting the California Secretary of State’s office. This automated response indicates that the Secretary of State’s office has received your email. Please see contact information below for assistance with your request:
Business Entities – Corporations
Inquiries regarding filings for corporations, including nonprofits
Email corporations@sos.ca.gov<mailto:corporations@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #2 - 1
Business Entities –LLC’s, LP’s, and Other Business Entities
Inquiries regarding filings for limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and other business entities (excluding corporations)
Email otherbusinessentities@sos.ca.gov<mailto:otherbusinessentities@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #3 - 1
Business Entities – Status or Records Request
Status of a submitted filing, or a business entities records request
Email BEStatusInquiry@sos.ca.gov<mailto:BEStatusInquiry@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-5448, Option #2 – 3, or Option #3 – 3
Statements of Information
Inquiries regarding statement of information filings for limited liability companies, corporations, common interest developments, publicly traded companies or penalties.
Statementofinformation@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Statementofinformation@sos.ca.gov>, Penaltywaivers@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Penaltywaivers@sos.ca.gov>, or call (916) 657-5448, Option #1
Notary
Inquiries regarding notaries public or apostilles
Email NotaryMail@sos.ca.gov<mailto:NotaryMail@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3595
Trademarks and Special Filings
Inquiries regarding trademarks, domestic partnerships, immigration consultants, and other special filings
Email SFmail@sos.ca.gov<mailto:SFmail@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3984
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
Inquiries regarding Uniform Commercial Code filings, including financing statements, judgment liens or attachment liens
Email UCC_support@sos.ca.gov<mailto:UCC_support@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 653-3516
Elections
Email Elections@sos.ca.gov<mailto:Elections@sos.ca.gov> or call (916) 657-2166
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Constituent Affairs
Office of Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
From: California Secretary of State
Dear Mr. Kagen,
Thank you for contacting our office again to request copies of additional records that potentially name Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin (aka"Marcus") McInerney.
Our staff previously conducted a diligent search based on the information you provided and based on the information that is searchable within our records and were able to identify the records we provided. However, our records for registered corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs) and limited partnerships, generally are organized by entity name and entity number and we are unable to search our millions of business entity records for individual names.
Therefore, as a result of the limits of our information technology systems and our manual paper processes presenting obstacles in our ability to conduct an additional search for records, resulting in our agency having to search an enormous volume of material in what amounts to a search for a “needle in the haystack,” (see California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court (1998) 67 Cal.App.4 159, 166; Rogers v. Superior Court (1993) 19 Cal.App.4 469, 481; American Civil Liberties Union v. Deukmejian (1982) 32 Cal.3d 440, 453; Government Code § 6255), we have no additional documents responsive to your request.
However, the California Business Search<https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business> provides filing history information and over 17 million free images of filings for corporations, LLCs and limited partnerships in a portable document (PDF) format, which are available to the public by searching by entity name, or by entity number. (See Government Code section 6253(f).) Therefore, if you know the names of other entities that you think may contain the names of those two individuals, you may wish to conduct your own search of our records online for additional records. (See attached webpage excerpt re the Business Search.)
Additionally, you may wish to order bulk data for the business entities registered with our office, also available through our bizfile system, and perform a search of that available data for the information you seek. (See attached excerpt of bulk data information from the bizfile online help guide: https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ucc/ucc-online-help.pdf.
We hope this information is helpful to you.
Sincerely,
Constituent Affairs
California Secretary of State
From: John Kennedy
To Constituent Affairs
Office of Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
Thank you for your response. One matter that concerns me is that the SOS was able to produce some documents related to my names search request. Yet the SOS is unable to produce a complete record related to my request. Here is a quote of your statement from previous correspondance, "The Secretary of State does not file records relating to ownership of the business entities registered with our office. However, we have identified 25 pages of records that list, in some capacity, the names of the two individuals you have requested."
1-How can you say the SOS does not file records relating to ownership when you have thousands of records relating to ownership?
2-You were able to identify 25 pages of records related to my request but no more. If you have to ability to do this why can't you search for complete records related to my request? It is difficult to fathom that the SOS can not search business entities filed in your database by name of owners of that business. This would be a basic function of any searchable database.
3. Kindly continue to search for records based on my initial request. I am repeating it below.
Thank you for your time and understanding.
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
The full names and records of all the LLC's owned or registered by a one Eddie J. Kohan and/or Martin (aka"Marcus") McInerney in the State of California between 1995 and current date, August 2022. The above individuals currently reside in Los Angeles, California.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
David Kagen
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