John A. Jenkins

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Years Before High Court’s Ruling Against Harvard, a FOIA...

FOIAengine Explores a Courtroom Sideshow in SFFA v. Harvard Amid the sprawling, years-long litigation in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that ultimately reshaped the legal landscape for affirmative action...

How Private Detectives Use FOIA

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...

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...

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...

Short Sellers Target Zeta Global, and a Private Eye...

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...

“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...