by John A. Jenkins | May 16, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Litigation, Non-Profits, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: What Does the American Accountability Foundation Want to Know – and Why? This week we’re taking a look at the more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests recently filed by the non-profit American Accountability Foundation. This group, a pugnacious...
by John A. Jenkins | Apr 30, 2024 | FOIA, Hedge Funds, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Traders Had an Inside Track on the CPI. Journalists Used FOIA to Expose It. Today’s story is about the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which calculates the all-important Consumer Price Index. It’s also a cautionary tale about how a select few on Wall Street...
by Randy E. Miller | Apr 24, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, News Media, SEC
FOIAengine: Insights From the Latest FDA and SEC Requests News media outlets are among the most prolific submitters of FOIA requests to federal agencies. These requests signal – in real time – the stories that journalists are researching and writing. To illustrate...
by John A. Jenkins | Apr 11, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Medical Devices
FOIAengine: As Deaths Mounted, J&J “Promised to Correct” – and Sought FDA Records Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) proudly calls itself “the world’s largest and most diversified healthcare products company.” The company had $85 billion in sales last year, and...
by John A. Jenkins | Apr 3, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Law Firms, Medical Devices
FOIAengine: Neuralink’s High Profile Makes It a Target It was a Musk Moment unlike any other: Two weeks ago, the first human participant in Neuralink’s brain-implant trials took the stage to show how he could play chess by imagining where he wanted the pieces to go. ...
by Randy E. Miller | Mar 27, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Hedge Funds, Law Firms, Litigation, Non-Profits, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Short-Selling, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Conservative Activists, Law Firms, Non-Profits Signal Competing Agendas A review of the most recent Freedom of Information Act requests made to the Food and Drug Administration illustrates how political organizations, law firms, news media, and financial...
