by John A. Jenkins | May 14, 2026 | FOIA, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals, SEC
FOIAengine: Requests to SEC Preceded Stock Troubles and a Surprise Resignation For a company that most Americans have never heard of, Medpace Holdings, Inc. (NASD:MEDP) sits remarkably close to the center of the modern drug-development economy. The Cincinnati-based...
by John A. Jenkins | Apr 9, 2026 | FDA, FOIA, Litigation, Medical Devices, Short-Selling, Stock Market
How FOIA Requests Signaled Problems With a “Bionic Pancreas” At a federal advisory panel meeting in 2018, a biomedical engineer named Ed Damiano stepped to the microphone – not just as a scientist. “I’m also a father,” he told regulators, describing his son’s...
by Randy Miller | Mar 18, 2026 | CFTC, Cryptocurrency, FOIA, Litigation, News Media, Politics
FOIAengine: News Organizations Investigate Prediction Markets Several leading news organizations are investigating high-flying prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, based on Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the Commodity and Futures Trading...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 4, 2026 | FDA, FOIA, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Media Requests Were Warnings, Months Before Bad News Hit In the early days of the Covid pandemic, there was big money on the line as pharmaceutical companies scrambled to produce vaccines. The world needed a miracle. The companies that could deliver it...
by John A. Jenkins | Aug 13, 2025 | Education, FOIA, Litigation, Politics
FOIAengine Explores a Courtroom Sideshow in SFFA v. Harvard Amid the sprawling, years-long litigation in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that ultimately reshaped the legal landscape for affirmative action in college admissions, a little-noticed courtroom...
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...