John A. Jenkins

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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...

More Litigation as Whistleblowers Lawyer Up

FOIAengine: Fights Erupt as SEC’s Tipsters Seek to Cash In After the Securities and Exchange Commission awarded $279 million last month to an anonymous whistleblower, a flurry of Freedom of Information...

Whistleblower, or Opportunist? A Short Seller Helps the Government

FOIAengine Reveals the Litigious Path to a Big SEC Payout Carson Block is a buccaneering stock trader, reveling in a role that’s long on risk and short on sympathy.  He’s...