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...
“Dirtbag of the Internet” Hits a Crypto Gusher
FOIAengine: Latest Media Requests Include $TRUMP Chase Herro, a self-proclaimed “dirtbag of the internet,” is a fast-talking serial entrepreneur and dealmaker with a colorful backstory and a lot of legal baggage, as recounted last year in a Bloomberg feature: ...
Questions About High-Flying Insulet Corp.
FOIAengine: Multiple Hedge Funds Seeking Inspection Reports Leading medical device manufacturer Insulet Corporation’s stock price (NASDAQ: PODD) is on a roll. But that hasn’t stopped financial firms from monitoring the company’s Food and Drug Administration plant...