FOIAengine Tracks Three Private Eyes on the Trail of Short-Seller Culper Research Brian Willingham is a licensed private investigator in New York, ID# 1000149418. He runs an investigative agency called Diligentia Group. The company’s motto is “We Find Evidence That...
How the Media Probes Trump’s Trade and Immigration Enforcement
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...
Some Research Into Short-Seller Culper Research
FOIAengine: How a Proxy Requester Masks Its Identity On April 14, 2021, online forums where retail investors and short sellers exchange research, rumors, and trading strategies were buzzing. On Reddit and Twitter, meme stock traders were watching for the next big...
ExodusPoint Gains A Unique Advantage
FOIAengine: Decoding How a Hedge Fund Tracks FDA Requests ExodusPoint burst onto the hedge fund scene in 2018 with the largest launch in history — raising $8.5 billion out of the gate — powered by institutional backing, an elite Wall Street pedigree, and high-profile...
Reporters Probe Mass Deportation Program
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...
Short Sellers Target Zeta Global, and a Private Eye Jumps In
FOIAengine Reveals Who’s Watching Whom Short seller Christian Lamarco likes to court controversy. When he founded his New York firm in 2019, he named it Culper Research – after the Culper Spy Ring, which operated during the American Revolution. Those revolutionary...