FOIAengine: Heritage’s Oversight Project Probes Law Firm Ties to Biden Amid President Trump’s recent high-profile efforts to punish or extract concessions from major law firms, a second front, much less publicized, has opened, with organizers of Project 2025 using the...
Hedge Fund Point72 Targets J&J Cancer Drug
FOIAengine: Questions Seek Adverse Reports about Carvykti According to a new PoliScio Analytics analysis of early 2025 Freedom of Information Act requests, investment firm Point72 has launched a significant FOIA-driven investigation into Johnson &...
New Questions about FDA and Pharma
FOIAengine: Revolving Door Hits Pfizer on the Way Out The revolving door between the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry took another fast spin when Pfizer announced that Patrizia Cavazzoni would be returning to the company as its chief...
News Media and Non-Profits Probe New Trump Initiatives
FOIAengine: Leading Topics Include DOGE, Executive Orders and Confidential Data As President Donald Trump moves quickly to implement his ambitious agenda, media organizations and non-profits are accelerating and sharpening their use of Freedom of Information Act...
Agency Judges Face the Ax as DOJ Switches Sides
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...
Huge Turnaround in SEC’s Crypto Enforcement
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...