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Law360 A government watchdog group is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in an effort to compel the agency to comply with document requests relating to potential conflicts of interests associated with former high-ranking SEC officials and their oversight of cryptocurrency. Empower Oversight filed a lawsuit Friday in Virginia federal court alleging the SEC …

AMBCRYPTO Many in the crypto community believe that there are major conflicts of interest where government employees and crypto assets are concerned. This became a burning hot issue during the SEC vs Ripple Labs lawsuit. Especially, when XRP community members claimed that key SEC figures had connections with the Ethereum ecosystem. Now, an action filed by Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research …

Breitbart Jake Sullivan’s wife, Margaret Goodlander, is under pressure to recuse herself from Special Counsel John Durham’s Trump-Russia probe, which involves her husband who worked for the 2016 Clinton campaign. … The Durham probe is overseen by Garland, which presents a conflict of interest for Goodlander, whose boss has authority over Durham’s investigative budget, scope, and release of the probe’s …

Free Beacon A top adviser to Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing calls to recuse herself from the Justice Department’s investigation of the Trump-Russia probe, which has looked into the actions of her husband, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Margaret Goodlander serves as counsel to Garland, who oversees Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation. Garland has …

“The new documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Empower Oversight whistleblower group, are raising questions about whether politics influenced a supposedly neutral process conducted by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s Integrity Committee, the disciplinary arm of the inspector general community.” Read more here.

“Empower Oversight, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization with the goal of enhancing oversight of government, won an appeal for six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, allowing the group to access documents previously undisclosed.” Read more here.

Whistleblower Network News In a letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urges the VA to answer questions about alleged whistleblower retaliation and lack of action in responding to a congressional probe of issues whistleblowers raised regarding ethics. Grassley opens the letter by mentioning an article published on WNN and written by …

Just The News The whistleblower group Empower Oversight has filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health to try to get the agency to comply with its Freedom of Information Act by releasing documents related to a request by Chinese researchers to remove genetic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a NIH-controlled database. In July, the …

Just The News A group funded by George Soros and other donors to continue investigating the Russia collusion allegations after the 2016 election met with the FBI, offering its assistance to agents and alerting them it was working with one of their terminated confidential sources in the case, Christopher Steele, according to court testimony made …