by Randy E. Miller | Dec 18, 2024 | FOIA, NASA, News Media
FOIAengine: Reporter Seeks Answers About NASA-SpaceX Relationship SpaceX has had a good year. In June, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded SpaceX a contract valued at up to $843 million to build the spacecraft that will be used to perform...
by John A. Jenkins | Dec 11, 2024 | FDA, FOIA, News Media, Politics
FOIAengine: HHS Designee Is Target After Calling FDA “Corrupt” Freedom of Information Act requests from the news media about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hit the Food and Drug Administration almost immediately after President-elect Trump announced his choice of Kennedy to...
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 Randy E. Miller | Nov 20, 2024 | FOIA, FTC, News Media
FOIAengine: News Media Seeks Records from Consumer Sentinel Network New research from PoliScio Analytics demonstrates how journalists use Freedom of Information Act requests to the Federal Trade Commission to uncover bad news about companies and individuals. The FTC...
by Randy E. Miller | Aug 21, 2024 | Antitrust, Cryptocurrency, FOIA, FTC, News Media
FOIAengine Analysis Reveals Targets and Topics News media outlets continued to be the leading submitters of Freedom of Information Act requests to the Federal Trade Commission during the first half of 2024, with many of the requests focused on the agency’s...
by John A. Jenkins | Aug 14, 2024 | FOIA, Litigation, News Media, SEC, Short-Selling
FOIAengine: How the “Bounty Hunter of Wall Street” Hedged His Bets As a young man, Andrew Left was a “real serious kid” – and very religious. He wanted to be a rabbi. But then, in his telling, Left saw a newspaper ad that said, “Earn $100,000.” “I thought, ‘Yeah,...
