by John A. Jenkins | Aug 12, 2026 | FOIA, SEC
As the artificial-intelligence arms race heats up, Meta and Google have turned to Wall Street for help paying the multi-billion-dollar tab. Amid data-center financing terms that even Google’s auditor calls questionable, a Washington securities lawyer whose clients...
by John A. Jenkins | Jun 17, 2026 | FOIA, Hedge Funds, SEC, Short-Selling, Stock Market
FOIA Requests Offer Signals, and a Requester Provides Names Activist short seller Andrew Left always had a taste for risk. So, with his freedom and fortune on the line a few weeks ago in a Los Angeles courtroom, Left tried to beat the federal securities fraud charges...
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 | Mar 11, 2026 | DOJ, FOIA, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: How a Grassroots Movement Saw New Evidence of a Conspiracy In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stone asked the agency...
by John A. Jenkins | Nov 12, 2025 | FOIA, SEC
FOIAengine: SEC’s$2.5 Billion Outsourcing Contract Explained The Securities and Exchange Commission, which signed a staffing contract potentially worth $2.5 billion with a Texas-based Alaska Native corporation, appears to have relied heavily on the outside contractor...
by John A. Jenkins | Nov 5, 2025 | Antitrust, Cryptocurrency, FOIA, FTC, Politics, SEC
FOIAengine: Tort Lawyers, Watchdogs Continue the Fight The October 21 presidential pardon that wiped away Changpeng Zhao’s criminal history may have erased the felony conviction of the Binance founder, but it hasn’t freed his empire – or quieted the controversy. ...
