by John A. Jenkins | May 14, 2025 | FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation, Politics, Short-Selling, Stock Market
FOIAengine Tracks the High Cost of Getting Even, and the Rewards Until six weeks ago, Jason Galanis was Inmate 80739-198 at the federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama, sentenced to almost 16 years confinement after admitting to a wild scheme in which he swindled tens...
by John A. Jenkins | Apr 30, 2025 | FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation, Non-Profits, Politics
FOIAengine: Heritage’s Oversight Project Probes Law Firm Ties to Biden Amid President Trump’s recent high-profile efforts to punish or extract concessions from major law firms, a second front, much less publicized, has opened, with organizers of Project 2025 using the...
by John A. Jenkins | Nov 26, 2024 | Corporate Investigators, FOIA, Hedge Funds, Law Firms, Litigation, News Media, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: Requests Signaled Trouble for Guatam Adani Guatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knows what it’s like to stare death in the face and survive. Danger has a knack for finding him. But each time – a...
by John A. Jenkins | Oct 31, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation
FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests About FDA’s Tobacco Regulation With cigarette makers battling for market dominance in a “smoke-free future,” legal and marketing battles are raging – and recent Freedom of Information Act requests may signal what’s coming next. Womble...
by Randy E. Miller | Oct 24, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation
FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation Does radiation from cell phones and cell towers affect human health? There has long been controversy around this question, which the federal government has tried to put to rest by issuing...
by John A. Jenkins | Jul 30, 2024 | Antitrust, FOIA, FTC, Law Firms, Pharmaceuticals
FOIA Requests Target Scott Sheffield, King of the Frackers, Amid Reports of a Criminal Referral This week, we’re looking into how antitrust enforcers used their approval of an oil-industry megadeal to send a message about white-collar criminality. It’s a cautionary...
