by John A. Jenkins | Mar 12, 2025 | FOIA, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: WILL TRUMP FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES? LinkedIn is usually a repository of routine announcements and postings, but this headline raised an alarm: Expect All SEC Administrative Law Judges to be Fired Forthwith. The prediction of such a drastic...
by John A. Jenkins | Mar 5, 2025 | Cryptocurrency, FOIA, SEC
FOIAengine: Finding a Signal Amid Hundreds of Requests Cameron Winklevoss, half of the identical-twin duo at the helm of the cryptocurrency exchange named Gemini (yes, Houston, we get it), had a big reason to celebrate last week’s news that the government dropped its...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 12, 2025 | DOD, FOIA, News Media, SEC, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Homeland Security Report, Media Requests Highlight the Issue When a deepfake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon caused investor panic in 2023, the hysteria caught authorities off guard and stymied investigators. The photo spread like a contagion...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 5, 2025 | FOIA, Non-Profits, Politics
FOIAengine: Vought’s Center for Renewing America Shows the Priorities of OMB’s New Director. But Will He Be in Synch with Musk? This week, we’re looking at the events, and the players, involved in the shambolic roll-out of the Trump Administration’s...
by John A. Jenkins | Jan 15, 2025 | FOIA, Litigation, NLRB
FOIAengine Breaks Down Court Cases, NLRB Actions, and Recent FOIA Requests On Brian Niccol’s first day four months ago as the new CEO of Starbucks, he sent out a memo to the coffee chain’s 200,000 employees. Starbucks had seen four CEOs in as many years. Labor...