1789 Capital Raises $861 Million for MAGA Investments

by John A. Jenkins | Sep 3, 2025 | FOIA, Hedge Funds, News Media, Politics, SEC

FOIAengine: Wall Street Journal Seeking SEC Emails and Texts Involving the Trump-Affiliated Venture Capital Firm The Wall Street Journal is pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission for records involving Trump-affiliated 1789 Capital – a timely request after a...

Sarepta Faces Scrutiny from Press, Investors, Lawyers — and Trump Team

by Randy E. Miller | Aug 21, 2025 | FOIA, Pharmaceuticals, Politics

FOIAengine: Maker of Elevidys Targeted by 91 FOIA Requests in 19 Months As biotech firm Sarepta Therapeutics (NASD: SRPT) battles patient deaths, regulatory action, and a cratering stock price, its dealings with the Food and Drug Administration are being monitored...

Years Before High Court’s Ruling Against Harvard, a FOIA Request Signaled Trouble

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...

How the Media Probes Trump’s Trade and Immigration Enforcement

by Randy E. Miller | Jul 24, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Requests Run the Gamut from Child Detentions to China Trade In the six months since President Trump’s inauguration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has received hundreds of news media Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information about the...

Reporters Probe Mass Deportation Program

by Randy E. Miller | Jun 25, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Journalists Use FOIA to Reveal Immigration Arrests and Contracts National and local journalists are using Freedom of Information Act requests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the inner workings of the Trump Administration’s...

The Crook, the Tycoon, the Short Seller, and Trump

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...