John A. Jenkins

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Inside the Republican FOIA Oppo Research on Graham Platner

FOIAengine: How the GOP’s Senate Campaign Committee Plays the Oppo Game   While national reporters were examining Graham Platner's turbulent personal life, Republican opposition researchers were quietly investigating an entirely different...

After Andrew Left, Short Sellers Face a New Question:...

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...

Perp Walk: “Wild West” Gold Rush in a $90...

FOIAengine: Requests Pile Up, As State and Federal Lawmakers Square Off Months before the regulatory chaos around prediction markets exploded into courtrooms, state houses, and the White House, sophisticated observers...

Hard Questions for NASA Amid Warning of Russian Cyberattacks

FOIA Requests From Former CIA, FBI agents  Across the United States, cybersecurity teams at federal agencies, defense contractors, telecom firms, and critical infrastructure operators are being warned to prepare for...

A Litigation Wave for Biotech’s Medpace

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...

Beta Bionics: The Rise and Decline of a High-Flying...

How FOIA Requests Signaled Problems With a “Bionic Pancreas”  At a federal advisory panel meeting in 2018, a biomedical engineer named Ed Damiano stepped to the microphone – not just...