by John A. Jenkins | Oct 1, 2025 | FOIA, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: How Obscure MMTLP Became a Cause Célèbre At the Securities and Exchange Commission, the inbox has been filling up with hundreds of near-identical Freedom of Information Act requests about a little-known company called Meta Materials, Inc., whose stock...
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...
by John A. Jenkins | May 8, 2025 | FDA, FOIA, FTC, News Media, SEC
The Latest Requests Logged in FOIAengine Questions about GLP-1 weight loss drugs, DOGE, cryptocurrencies, and the past conduct of Trump’s regulatory nominees are among those in newly available Freedom of Information Act requests filed by media organizations with the...
by John A. Jenkins | Mar 12, 2025 | FOIA, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: WILL TRUMP FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES? LinkedIn is usually a repository of routine announcements and postings, but this headline raised an alarm: Expect All SEC Administrative Law Judges to be Fired Forthwith. The prediction of such a drastic...
by John A. Jenkins | Mar 5, 2025 | Cryptocurrency, FOIA, SEC
FOIAengine: Finding a Signal Amid Hundreds of Requests Cameron Winklevoss, half of the identical-twin duo at the helm of the cryptocurrency exchange named Gemini (yes, Houston, we get it), had a big reason to celebrate last week’s news that the government dropped its...
by John A. Jenkins | Feb 12, 2025 | DOD, FOIA, News Media, SEC, Stock Market
FOIAengine: Homeland Security Report, Media Requests Highlight the Issue When a deepfake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon caused investor panic in 2023, the hysteria caught authorities off guard and stymied investigators. The photo spread like a contagion...
