UncoverDC On July 14, 2021, Empower Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeking answers on why—at the request of China’s Wuhan University—the agency deleted crucial information about the SARS-CoV-2 gene sequencing in June 2020. After failing to sufficiently meet Empower Oversight’s FOIA deadline, the NIH improperly …
Just The News In light of the Veterans Affairs’ inspector general investigation, Jason Foster, founder of Empower Oversight, expressed the difficulty of convincing government whistleblowers to come forward if they’re not protected from retaliation and bureaucrats aren’t held accountable for their actions.
Finbold The ongoing legal battle between the Securities Exchanges Commission (SEC) and blockchain company Ripple (XRP) has taken another twist after the presiding judge denied the regulatory agency’s motion to seal. Court documents shared by Ripple defence attorney James Filan on June 9 indicate that SEC was also ordered to file a redacted version of the brief …
Fox Business Following 16 months of intense pre-trial litigation, countless hours in court and over 600,000 documents reviewed by both sides, the case that’s being billed as “the cryptocurrency trial of the century” could all come down to one speech made by a former Securities and Exchange Commission official four years ago. That case, of course, is the lawsuit …
Washington Examiner “Lurking behind the mountains of prosecutorial evidence presented in over 150 exhibits and testimony by nearly two dozen witnesses in the now-concluded Michael Sussmann trial, questions swirl about how widely the debunked Trump-Russia collusion computer data spread among Washington, D.C.’s most powerful committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee in early 2017. “On …
Federal News Network The inspectors general for two intelligence agencies were each overpaid by tens of thousands of dollars between 2016 and 2020. That’s according to an internal Defense Department memo a whistleblower supplied to Empower Oversight, an outside watchdog group. There’s no clear evidence anyone intentionally did anything wrong. There’s also no evidence the …
The Epoch Times The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made an error when it took COVID-19 sequencing data offline, the agency’s head said on May 11. “In the way it was originally eliminated from public view, it was ‘withdrawn.’ And that’s the most difficult for people to access. The error that was made—and we found this out …
Law360 A nonprofit watchdog asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate its former corporate finance head, Bill Hinman, now a Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP senior adviser, claiming statements he made about cryptocurrencies while at the agency may have presented a conflict of interest. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research claims Hinman didn’t follow instructions that the SEC’s ethics …
Forbes The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has lorded the sword of Damocles over fintech for years. It has used the blunt force of “regulation by enforcement” to make de facto rules against innovative companies rather than following the notice and comment steps required by the 1948 Administrative Procedure Act. Its lawsuits against Kik Interactive, …