WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Eastern District of Virginia to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that the DOJ has refused to answer for 12 months. The request seeks documents related to the DOJ’s failure to require Al Jazeera to register under the Foreign Agents Registration …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight filed a notice informing the Court of its new request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) related to the ongoing lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding potential conflicts of interest surrounding cryptocurrency enforcement decisions. The notice explains that the new request is an effort to require the SEC to conduct searches necessary …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has filed another records request with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to conflicts of interest in its cryptocurrency enforcement decisions. The move is an effort to end the SEC’s gamesmanship and delays in refusing to conduct searches for records of communications using a specific list of names that the SEC first asked Empower Oversight …
WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Services suggested recently that there may be an investigation in response to Empower Oversight’s referral to the SEC Inspector General (IG) regarding conflicts of interest and selective enforcement in cryptocurrency cases at the SEC. John Deaton, a lawyer and founder of crypto-law.us, …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight filed its opposition to the Veterans Administration’s (VA) motion for summary judgment in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the agency. The VA is refusing to turn over factual information gathered in response to Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) oversight of conflicts of interest and leaks of market sensitive information prior the announcement …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight filed its opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)’s motion for summary judgment in the ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit over documents related to conflicts of interest and selective enforcement in cryptocurrency cases. The filing demonstrates that the SEC intentionally misinterpreted the plain text of Empower Oversight’s request, …
WASHINGTON – The FBI suspended FBI Special Agent Steve Friend’s security clearance shortly after he made legally protected disclosures of FBI misconduct involving improper record-keeping, waste of resources, and risks to public safety posed by the overuse of SWAT teams and tactics in nonviolent misdemeanor January 6-related cases. Empower Oversight is assisting him in making further …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight filed an amended complaint (and exhibits) against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after the agency failed to conduct adequate searches in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request subject to a lawsuit filed in May. The suit seeks to compel the agency to provide documents responsive to the VA’s failure to respond to …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight secured important wins in its lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding COVID-19 genetic data deletion at the request of a Chinese researcher. The judge in the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that because the names of the …
Empower Oversight seeks time to conduct page-by-page comparison of the SEC’s last-minute disclosures after agency refuses to specify new info. WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight filed a motion in the Eastern District of Virginia in its lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking time to conduct a detailed review of about 1,500 pages of …