John A. Jenkins

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Down the Rabbit Hole with Sam Bankman-Fried

FOIAengine:  As Trial Looms, a Private Investigator Pursues the SEC It’s been a tough couple of months for Sam Bankman-Fried.  He’s stewing in jail, facing 155 years in prison, while...

Republicans Playing the Oppo Game

FOIAengine Looks at Opposition Research on the Right In the shadowy world of political opposition research, sometimes the game looks like Spy vs. Spy.  That’s particularly true right now, in the run-up to...

The DNC Goes Fishing – What Will it Catch?

FOIAengine Examines Political Opposition Research A few weeks ago, Politico’s Florida Playbook ran a story revealing what “hundreds of people, groups, and journalists” in the state were asking for:  “texts, emails, calendars,...

Research Irregularities, A Suicide, and FOIA

FOIAengine:  A Request Was a Signal, Months Before Bad News Hit Columbia University’s New York State Psychiatric Institute has a storied research history stretching back to its founding in 1895 as one...

Big Safety Questions About India’s Pharma

FOIAengine Reveals Media Pushing FDA for Answers Journalists made an unusually high number of requests last month to the Food and Drug Administration for information about the safety of India’s...

Bloomberg’s “FOIA Terrorist”

FOIAengine Reveals a Savvy Journalist’s Big Impact Bloomberg’s 320,000 terminals are life blood to Wall Street traders.  The company, with 20,000 employees in 176 offices, derives an estimated 90 percent...